Well all my friends are doing it, I might as well jump in. I have to admit the results surprised me. I was experimenting with snmpwalk recently and this has skewed my results terribly.

On my daily use laptop:

polycarb:~ alan$ uname -a ;  history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s \n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head

Darwin polycarb.local 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar  4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

99	cd
86	ls
30	make
19	snmpwalk
17	ssh
16	svn
14	less
13	open
12	telnet
12	ifconfig

No surprises there, I use open a fair bit to open a Finder window in a particular directory. As others have noted, this does not account for the amount of work that goes on in the Aquamacs session.

On a dated work machine that is used for project management, integration and firmware builds:

Linux energia 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 #5 SMP Thu Sep 9 10:16:29 MDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
117	cd
76	svn
68	ls
36	./buildrel
25	svnmerge
22	pwd
14	grep
13	echo
12	less
8	bint

I make no apologies for running Gentoo here, but I wouldn’t do it again, that’s for sure. –funroll-loops –gaak!

buildrel is a script that (predictably) builds the firmware release image files and bint is a “bug integration tool” that lets me see diffs, branch-points and manage merges for integrating tasks into the stable codelines. It isn’t much more than a convenience wrapper around svn.

Unlike my initial service order request, AT&T seems to have had no trouble ‘upgrading’ my service. I just ran a test today and things appear to be faster already. They told me I would likely have to wait 2 weeks.

vs the old results which were:

This appears to be a 2x increase (approximately) for 5$ / month. Nice.

When I first arrived, AT&T insisted that they could get me their “Elite” package, which claimed some certain download speed (6Mbps IIRC). When I ordered it I was downgraded to the “Pro” package at a mere 3Mbps maximum download rate. The reasoning AT&T gave me for this (orginally) was my distance from the CO.

I have to admit that I get nearly that and my recent DSL reports testing support this with raw test results around 2.46Mbps (fairly close to 3.0 as far as these things are concerned):

Cut forward one month. AT&T phones me at home this evening to offer me an upgrade on DSL. I kindly informed the calling solicitor that I couldn’t be upgraded (according to them) because of my distance to the CO. He informs me that we are “… a mere 7.08 kft from the switch…” and “..should have no problem with the Elite package.”

Sold. We’ll see:

1. how long it takes to process the order, and;
2. what the resulting speed is.

PS: Don’t get me started on “kilofeet”. That really isn’t an SI unit.

Update : Apparently the provisioning is complete. See this post for the comparison.