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Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by avar on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @08:26AM (#1493959)
Since the HTTP mirrors warp and cicada put up are getting hammered I've made a Torrent of Don-Knuth.mp4:

http://v.nix.is/~leech/Don-Knuth.mp4.torrent

It's using the OpenBitTorrent tracker. Please seed it.

Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by chronomex on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @04:07PM (#1495252)
I can't seem to contact the tracker. Does it work for other people?
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by avar on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:04PM (#1495462)
I daresay it's only a problem you're having. As I write this 250 unique IP addresses have downloaded the Torrent, and I've uploaded 1145.7 MB of it myself, or 8.9% of the expected total: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=100+*+(1145.7+MB)+/+(51...

That's not bad for outsourcing your bandwidth, BitTorrent rocks!

Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by warp on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:20AM (#1493756)
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by warp on Thursday July 08, 2010 @09:14AM (#1497194)
Now that avar has posted a .torrent, I've removed this file.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by jarin on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @07:03AM (#1493883)
I love that he uses transparencies on an overhead projector. That's true old-school.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by greenlblue on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @02:29AM (#1493519)
This is awesome. The funny just doesn't stop.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by ojilles on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:36AM (#1493775)
Anyone have a quick summary of what this is even about?
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by michael_dorfman on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:53AM (#1493793)
It's a product announcement by Knuth, for a successor to TeX.

Telling any more would spoil the fun-- and if the sentence above doesn't sound like big fun to you, well, then don't even bother with the link, you're not in the target audience.

Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by hugh3 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @10:07AM (#1494221)
Really, it's a video, not everyone wants to watch a video.

Can I assume it's a joke product rather than a real product?

Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by TallGuyShort on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @12:15PM (#1494578)
Yes, it's a joke product. It's 34 minutes, and rather funny, but not likely something you'd take time out of your day to watch in it's entirety.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by michael_dorfman on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @03:18PM (#1495111)
Different strokes, I guess. I take 34 minutes out of my day to watch a Knuth video every chance I get.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by jerguismi on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:15AM (#1493749)
I fucking hate these videos. Why they don't even provide summary in the web page?
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by gnaffle on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:19AM (#1493754)
Be patient. With the new revolutionary product by Knuth, the summary will be generated automatically.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by zephjc on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @06:34AM (#1493849)
I can't wait to use ǐTéx (ring-a-ding)!
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by coverband on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:23PM (#1495528)
Quick summary from /.: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1705630&cid=... for those with no patience who want to get to the joke.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by setori88 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @02:51AM (#1493562)
Please post your mirrors here.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by cicada on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @03:37AM (#1493643)
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by malkia on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:55AM (#1493798)
No need to. Once the system becomes available, it'll post itself.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by zck on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @10:27PM (#1496262)
Has anyone been able to get into http://projectmarianne.com , the site about this project?
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by lvecsey on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @01:12PM (#1494734)
Society has a little bit of iTex in all its products.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by zephjc on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @01:58AM (#1493465)
This is a very slow site. Is there a mirror for this?
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by cicada on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @02:35AM (#1493529)
Anyone who wants to mirror can try downloading the video from http://media.river-valley.tv/conferences/tug-2010/Don-Knuth....
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by cstuder on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @03:15AM (#1493608)
Don't get impatient: For me, there was a delay of several minutes between HTTP-request and its response.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by malkia on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:54AM (#1493796)
fyi: The new product would speed up such sites, using it's cloud technology built-in, or as a plugin.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by smallhands on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @11:33AM (#1494450)
please explain what is fyi?
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by russell on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @11:56AM (#1494523)
For Your Information, a pre-internet acronym.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by pyre on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @01:21PM (#1494766)
The name of the company that Murphy Brown worked for.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by mark_h on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @09:37AM (#1494125)
The best thing is somewhere someone is probably working on actually implementing this, like so many XKCD cartoons.
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by bluemoon on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @05:04AM (#1493741)
Yeah it never actually loaded for me :(
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by billstr on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @03:23AM (#1493623)
WOW, a black page
Re:Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement by cosmohh on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @08:00AM (#1493929)
the bell is awesome :)