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

[siblog]

"Download Day" seems to run until 11:16 AM today according to the world
record page (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord) and the
download count is about to surpass 7 million! Here is the download counter -
http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

-Simon

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:54 AM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
> wrote:
>
>> > while true
>> > do
>> >        wget http://download.mozilla.org/firefox3.exe -O /dev/null
>> > done
>>
>> That's dumb.  Stop.  Don't hammer the server for nothing.  Tell all your
>> friends to
>> download it, instead.
>
>
> That was posted earlier in this thread. I was just asking what it did as I
> wasn't sure.
>
>
>>
>>
>> Why no concurrent release for Linux?
>>
>
> I just downloaded the linux version at
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ (se. It must have just detected my
> OS because there is nothing special about that url.
>
>
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