Download files with SSH

Occasionally, my ISP (BT) does lack in connection speed. It’s not necessarily their fault, but one of the links or bridges connecting is slow. I was downloading some large mixes that a friend had done on his server, but I was only getting 40KB/s on a 200mb file, slow. I thought about it, and was wondering how I can use my dreamhost server to my advantage. I asked a couple of friends, and a mate, William told me about the SSH function, wget.

WGET tells the server to download a file of another server. As my dreamhost server sits in a huge data center with huge pipes hooked up to it I can hit speeds that I can only dream of. I know that I can hit high speeds when downloading files from my server, roughly 700KB/s - which is nearly topping out my home internet connection. Once I told the server what to download, i was hitting file transfer rates on 10MB/s on some (server to server).

So how do we go about downloading files then?

First we need to SSH into our server;

user@example.com  - then we enter our password once prompted.

once we are logged in - simply type

“wget [insertthefilelocation]”

After our files have been downloading, simply log into your server via ftp and downloading your files.

Thoughts: The Sixty One

This week I discovered a new music service through a friend, Michael Yurechko. It’s called TheSixyOne and It’s an online music streaming and discovery service. Kinda like Last.FM but you don’t scrobble music to them. You bump tracks and favourite them creating a radio station for other users to listen to.

They have some pretty large artists like Kanye West and Kate Perry while having lots of small indie artists and electronic people. The way the SixtyOne was setup is that you can browse the site and have your songs play in the little sidebar player. Last.FM sucks as doing this and you have to open another window, and then browse. I have it open on my littleside laptop playing through the day and it’s great! The music that I find is more suited to me than ever before, Last.FM think’s i’m into hardcore heavy metal - which I’m not, sorry.

Overall - the SixtyOne is a pretty amazing site, I defiantly recommend you check it out! When signing up, use the referral name as: bayliss and then we both get some love.

Internet memes - People, keep up!

Recently, over the last year more and more internet memes have been creeping more and more into general conversation. Examples of these can be;

• Pwn - Own
• Noob - Debbie
• PenguinHead
• MacFag
• LAG!
• RickRoll