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Subject: Re: tablebase availability update LOL@HYATT

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 23:09:33 04/25/00

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On April 26, 2000 at 00:41:27, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On April 25, 2000 at 23:53:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 25, 2000 at 23:45:29, robert michelena wrote:
>>
>>>LOL.  Too much. lol  "to all morons..."
>>
>>
>>Just so you know... our campus ftp machine in CIS (the one I am responsible
>>for) has really attracted the attention of our campus network folks.  :)
>>
>>They have noticed the following:
>>
>>(1) we are sustaining about 70mbits/second 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, non-
>>stop (downloads going out of the department).  The majority of this is the
>>databases.
>>
>>(2) they used to could tell when Eugene would upload a new set of 5 piece
>>files, as they would see a big spike in net usage.  The spike has been
>>smoothed out to a continual 70mbits/sec now, it seems.  We are averaging about
>>40 ftp users non-stop, many sucking up the 6 piece files, which is amazing.
>>
>>(3) we have a campus traffic monitor, and it consistently has
>>juniper.cis.uab.edu at the very top of the list traffic-wise, this in a
>>university/medical center with over 20,000 employees and about that many
>>computers.
>>
>>We are _definitely_ noticed.  And yes, before you ask, everyone knows what is
>>being downloaded "those big chess databases" as they are locally known.  :)
>>
>>This download phenomenon is really amazing.  I would never have guessed this
>>level of activity non-stop.
>
>The typical human has an infinite appetite for free food.  I would have expected
>that anyone connected with a university would know this.
>
>bruce

And yet, so many people seem to hate the "moron-in-the-middle" dishing out the
free food.  Oh, wait a minute, we hate that bastard, don't eat that!  You gotta
put on some weight eating those free 6pc. platters.

Pete



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