[plug] DB2 for Linux

[John Summerfield]

> IBM has a free single-user developer license for DB2 6.1.
> But the download is 60MB at about 300 baud, with no Australian mirror.
> Has anybody downloaded it already?

Downloads from IBM are usually pretty good, at least as seen through my 
33k6 modem. These pings seem pretty reasonable to me:

[summer at possum summer]$ ping -c4 service.boulder.ibm.com
PING service.boulder.ibm.com (207.25.253.26) from 192.168.1.6 : 56(84) 
bytes of data.
64 bytes from 207.25.253.26: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=512.1 ms
64 bytes from 207.25.253.26: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=484.9 ms
64 bytes from 207.25.253.26: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=477.6 ms
64 bytes from 207.25.253.26: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=475.9 ms



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Cheers
John Summerfield
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