what fools these mortals be!

i’m waiting now for a data dump to finish downloading so i can get some work done.  it’s a roughly 8GB transfer that i just started.

let’s see, the connection is a 1Mb/s connection, so that’s 1,000,000 bps  * 1byte/8bit = 125kB/s.  now there’s network latency and other people sharing this connection, so let’s say that i’m really transferring at about 100kB/s which i think is a little fast, but let’s pretend that’s correct.  that’s 1MB every 10 seconds, or 6MB per minute.  in an hour, i can transfer 360MB.

that means it’ll only take 22 hours before my download is done.  hmmm, it’ll be done by end of day friday!  i guess my work is done for the week.  i should go home for the weekend.