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The story mentioned how one of the reasons to put Bob on each CD was to make any download of the ISO longer, since the actual XP data didn't fill the CD's capac

by jboy55 4y ago

The story mentioned how one of the reasons to put Bob on each CD was to make any download of the ISO longer, since the actual XP data didn't fill the CD's capacity. Someone this conjured a memory of downloading XP/2000 back in the day, when I first got DSL, and how it was almost an hour. I thought that was quick at the time. 1.5mb/s vs 56k and all. I recently upgraded to 1GB internet, a 600mb game update took under 10 seconds. I wonder what 20 years will bring?

nirav72 4y ago
> I wonder what 20 years will bring? Probably not much. At least advancements wont be like the difference between going from 1.5 mbps to 1 gbps. It's the same reason why 10gbe ethernet has not become a common thing for consumer level desktop hardware. While 1gbe ethernet has been the standard offering since the mid-2000s. Recently lot of manufacturers have started supporting 2.5gbe. But low cost switching/routing hardware that fully supports 2.5gbe isn't quite there yet.
- eru 4y ago
  Here in Singapore Gigabit Internet is pretty much standard with fibre-to-the-home almost everywhere. My main problem is that wifi is slower than that. So to benefit from faster speeds, I'd either have to upgrade to wifi 6 or lay cables throughout the house. The ISPs here are happy to sell you faster broadband, though.
  - deepsun 4y ago
    Same thing in US, but, at least in my US apartment, ethernet cables were already built into the walls, with outlet or two for each room. As I prefer desktop to a laptop for everyday work, I gladly used it.
raldi 4y ago
This is apparently incorrect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35462655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35462655
- Kwpolska 4y ago
  I trust Raymond Chen more than Dave Plummer.
3np 4y ago
I wonder what the accumulated climate impact of this cryptographically-validated-bloat-as-friction-for-filesharing across the claimed half-a-billion copies is on the earth.
- coldpie 4y ago
  30 MB * 500,000,000 copies = 15,000 TB = 15 PB. Per [1], that's about one month of global Internet traffic in 1999, and about 6 minutes of global internet traffic in 2017[2]. I'm too lazy to re-do this math with today's numbers, but it's probably more like 2 minutes today. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic [2] Check my math: ( (15 PB) / (100,000 PB monthly traffic in 2017) ) * 30 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes = 6.5 minutes.

by jboy55 4y ago

nirav72 4y ago

> I wonder what 20 years will bring? Probably not much. At least advancements wont be like the difference between going from 1.5 mbps to 1 gbps. It's the same reason why 10gbe ethernet has not become a common thing for consumer level desktop hardware. While 1gbe ethernet has been the standard offering since the mid-2000s. Recently lot of manufacturers have started supporting 2.5gbe. But low cost switching/routing hardware that fully supports 2.5gbe isn't quite there yet.

eru 4y ago
Here in Singapore Gigabit Internet is pretty much standard with fibre-to-the-home almost everywhere. My main problem is that wifi is slower than that. So to benefit from faster speeds, I'd either have to upgrade to wifi 6 or lay cables throughout the house. The ISPs here are happy to sell you faster broadband, though.
- deepsun 4y ago
  Same thing in US, but, at least in my US apartment, ethernet cables were already built into the walls, with outlet or two for each room. As I prefer desktop to a laptop for everyday work, I gladly used it.

raldi 4y ago

This is apparently incorrect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35462655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35462655

Kwpolska 4y ago
I trust Raymond Chen more than Dave Plummer.

3np 4y ago

I wonder what the accumulated climate impact of this cryptographically-validated-bloat-as-friction-for-filesharing across the claimed half-a-billion copies is on the earth.

coldpie 4y ago
30 MB * 500,000,000 copies = 15,000 TB = 15 PB. Per [1], that's about one month of global Internet traffic in 1999, and about 6 minutes of global internet traffic in 2017[2]. I'm too lazy to re-do this math with today's numbers, but it's probably more like 2 minutes today. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic [2] Check my math: ( (15 PB) / (100,000 PB monthly traffic in 2017) ) * 30 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes = 6.5 minutes.