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Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day
Kolargol00 writes "An outage affected the Mozilla.com website on the day the organisation launched its Guinness World Record attempt for downloads of the new Firefox 3 browser. The mozilla.com site was unreachable from around the world, occasionally responding with the message, 'Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.'" Since they decided to run their day from 1pm to 1pm Eastern time, the download day is actually still going, so you can still get Firefox and be part of the record.
A large chair-shaped dent was subsequently found in the side of their web server, and a large sweaty man was seen running from the scene of the crime shouting "DEVLOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!!"
I thought it was my browser ...
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
It's true - if you RTFA you'll see that netcraft confirmed it !!!
Sorry, the font on that page is so small I can barely read it.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
paranoia
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, madness, from paranous demented, from para- + nous mind
Date: circa 1811
1 : a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations
2 : a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others
Greenland, you're slackin' off about this.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Yeah, because Amazon *never* goes down.
Amazon is a pregnant wife?
I am sure a New Zealander or German would have been just as helpful as a Canadian. But thanks for the complement.
Q. What is Calvin's monster snowman called? A. The Torment Of Existence Weighed Against The Horror of Non Being
If they make it, everyone goes to Guinness' book site to see the record.
If they fail, they'll be drowning their sorrows in pints of Guinness...
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
I myself claimed the "most automobile wreckage ever recovered from a human rectum" record last year. Though the attempt wasn't intentional, I'm damn proud to be in such noteworthy company.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I suspect the IE team set their own Guinness World Record for "most human urine ever baked into a cake."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
just to run up the numbers? it's "inconceivable!" (but the word may not mean what i think it means...... heh
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
His name is also Chad.
Seriously, Don't take anything I say seriously.
Up to now the record broke them ... or at least their servers.
I used Firefox 3 beta for quite a while now and it's great. Nice to see that a flagship of FOSS has such a sustained success.
(BTW - yes I missed a chance for a "in soviet russ..."on purpose.)
"Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
\Joke\, n. [L. jocus. Cf {Jeopardy}, {Jocular}, {Juggler}.]
Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something
witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or
humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack
good-natured jokes.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
Cool, I didn't know they were starting a record label. What kind of music are they into?
whoosh /wu, w, wu, w/
-noun 1. a loud, rushing noise, as of air or water: a great whoosh as the door opened.
-verb (used without object) 2. to move swiftly with a gushing or hissing noise: gusts of wind whooshing through the trees.
-verb (used with object) 3. to move (an object, a person, etc.) with a whooshing motion or sound: The storm whooshed the waves over the road.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
Goatse guy, is that you?
Go on.
Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
In Soviet Russia, chance misses you!
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
How can my wife read slashdot from her spot in the kitchen?
Did you know that every emergency room in the southern U.S. now how a Guinness representative on staff? I didn't until last year.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Hmm, if I keep replying to my own -1 Trolled posts, I bet I can knock my karma down a couple pegs.
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That's why you should only eat open-recipe cakes.
Who ordered that?
I'm sorry, but you need to apologize to those poor people south of the border. There is no way they're going to believe you're polite and friendly starting off your comment with, "You dumbass!"
You should know we have to carefully craft our backhanded compliments.
Now let's sit down and have a beer. I hear the Russians are catching up to our downloads now that their hockey team has finished practice.
Firefox doesn't love IE though! At www.webuser.co.uk/firefox Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, said: "I hope that IE6 will quickly disappears, because it's so limited in terms of standards support. Repeat after me: die IE6, die! ;-) I hope that Microsoft's IE8 will bear fruits and help in this regard, also with the help of the other modern browsers (Safari and Opera)"
She's using the Jura F90 coffee maker, apparently.
mmm, yellowcake.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
xkcd/firefox
But does every emergency room in the southern U.S. now have Guiness on tap?
I agree, car analogies are the Ford Edsels of the English language.
Chernobyl 'not a wildlife haven' - BBC News
What idiot compiles a cake? You sir, need to take a cooking class. ;)