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First Episode of NerdTV Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hope-they-are-ready-for-nerd-traffic dept.

kurosawdust writes "The first ever episode of Robert Cringely's long-awaited NerdTV is now available for download. This episode features Andy Hertzfeld, member of the original Macintosh team who always has a few good stories to tell. Episode 1 is available in MP4 Video (whole episode and smaller-sized snippets) MP3, Ogg, AAC, and good old-fashioned text transcript (for those of you who watch your TV in vi, like God intended). NerdTV is released under the Creative Commons license."

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  1. Below expectations by NamShubCMX · · Score: 4, Informative
    The interview is really interesting but I was somewhat disappointed by the "TV" part.

    It could really well be NerdRadio, since there is absolutely nothing happening on the screen but that guy's lips moving.
    For +1h.

    Save your bandwidth and get the Ogg audio version.

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  2. Re:No Torrent? by lga · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bob mentioned bittorrent when he talked about NerdTV in July. He explained that people downloading NerdTV via bittorrent would only seed the last one or two episodes, and that he would instead build a distributed network similar to Akamai.

    From the article: "so the real heavy lifting for NerdTV will be done through a network of distributed servers I've created as a kind of "poor man's Akamai." My distribution cost using this system, by the way, works out to be approximately ONE PERCENT of Akamai's retail price, which shows how much profit there is in that business, or should be."

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  3. TORRENT by fabs64 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the official torrent.
    No seeds as yet, hopefully the /. crowd will quickly change that ;-)