Random Humor

An anonymous reader sends in Monitor Man: "Monitor Man is the latest idea in Japan for advertising at sports matches. Seems to be quite popular with the kids, anyway... siliconshock writes "Here is a torrent link to a 10 year old educational video from the SPA (Software Publisher's Association), which tells kids not to 'copy that floppy'. The video contains oldskool screen shots from "Oregon Trail", "Tetris" and other games of the era. The best part is the rapper who is singing and dancing to a great anti-piracy song. Here is more info. The file is 16mb, and in case you were worried about this file being copyrighted.... 'The Software Publishers Association gives you permission to copy this video for the non-profit purpose of promoting the ethical and legal use of software.'" And [vmlinuz] writes "After recently hearing a few different versions of RMS's legendary Free Software Song, I decided to do my own version, considerably heavier. You can get it in MP3 and OGG format."

Comments

Looking at the pictures...

[LongJohnStewartMill]

I just know that guy's first name is iMac...

The solution to all /. 'ings

[evilviper]

I think I know the soultion... You see, if files were on an FTP site, you could actually limit the number of simultaneous connections quite easilly. It can be done with HTTP, but not easilly, and not all that well.

The fact that every major distributor of files uses FTP exclusively should say something. You don't see Linux/BSD isos on HTTP very often, now do you?

Take my advice, if you want to survive a /.ing, put your files on FTP, even if your files happen to be HTML doucments, images, Oggs, etc.

Either that, or hack together a good system for limited the number of simultaneous users on your HTTP site. A good system could imitate spamcop.net... If you are overloaded, send them to a basic page that says so, and insert a meta-refresh tag... The more users, the longer the time for that meta-refresh should be.

You might have to wait a while to log-in to the FTP server, but you wouldn't have out-of-control bandwidth costs, you wouldn't swamp your line, and your server wouldn't be smoldering right now:

temp$ wget http://www.jonobacon.org/music/solo/jonobacon-free so>
--02:00:40-- http://www.jonobacon.org/music/solo/jonobacon-free softwaresong.ogg
=> `jonobacon-freesoftwaresong.ogg'
Connecting to www.jonobacon.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.

--02:08:40-- http://www.jonobacon.org/music/solo/jonobacon-free softwaresong.ogg
(try: 2) => `jonobacon-freesoftwaresong.ogg'
Connecting to www.jonobacon.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...

Re:Dumbest Link ever?

[Sevn]

Played fine on mplayer for me. Pathetic rhymes and
all. Too bad it's too big to fit on an AOL floppy or
I'd share it with all my friends. Maybe AOL will
start putting out their crap on CDRW's and I'll be
able to share stuff again.