[CoLoCo] [off-topic?] geekiest world record ever w/ firefox

Jim Hutchinson jim at ubuntu-rocks.org
Tue Jun 17 19:47:11 BST 2008


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM, TC <telecon at infosyndicate.net> wrote:

> I got in, but the site redirected me to the firefox2 web page, since I
> am running linux.
>
> Andrew wrote:
> > Today is Download Day!!!
> >
> > unfortunately the firefox site is too busy for me to get on.
> >
> >
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/stunts-today-for-firefox-sophisticated-programs-tomorrow/?ref=technology
>

*Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

*
Hard to break/make a record when the site is down. Maybe they should have
rented a bit more bandwidth (or a lot more).

Btw, what does this script do?

while true
do
       wget http://download.mozilla.org/firefox3.exe -O /dev/null
done

Just download it or something more fancy?

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Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)
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