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As many of you probably know, June 17, 10am PST is the drop date for
Firefox 3, and they’re attempting a Guinness World Record of most
downloads in one day as a kickoff promotion. I’m writing this at
10:11am PST, 11 minutes after the new Firefox 3 drop date, and the site
has been down for the past ~15 minutes or so. In effect, the Mozilla
foundation essentially DDoS’ed themselves with their record attempt
(for the newbz, DDoS = distributed denial of service, where a site goes
down due to massive amounts of connection requests)! You’d think they
would have anticipated the massive load.

Anyway, when you’re ready to give it a shot check it out here. I’ve been using it since 3.0b3 and it’s pretty good so far.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

Posted by PaulpBaker on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008


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Posted by PaulpBaker on Sunday, June 15th, 2008


Posted in Guides

Recently, the need for space has become immense. Files have become
increasingly larger, there are more things to download and so on.
Personally, I run out of space on multiple drives all the time. Maybe
you are trying to get a file sent to someone, but it’s too large for an
attachment on your email. Possibly you want to backup some files to
download later or multiple times. That is why there are file hosts.

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Posted by PaulpBaker on Sunday, June 15th, 2008


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Posted by PaulpBaker on Saturday, June 14th, 2008


Posted in Videos

Posted by PaulpBaker on Saturday, June 14th, 2008