Evening Reading

August 21, 2007 5:00 PM

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Wow, so that BioShock demo pretty much hammered this place. We were (and still are) pushing out bandwidth by the gigabit. Exact release times really do suck for websites blowing up. How about just giving us like a few hour window or something next time? So then, for this evening I bring you:

Flash is going HD with H.264
MTV/Real/Verizon vs Apple
Dude did strange stuff
Skype outage details
Famous body parts

Lastly, I've pretty much always known download accelerators do work but I've also always found them annoying. However I recently finally checked out the FireFox dTa plugin and I'm in love with this thing. Awesome and not bloated. I dig it so much I even emailed the developers hoping we can start pushing that thing for people to use at FileShack in an official capacity. If you're a Mercury member give it a shot. Install the thing and then try and download the BioShock PC demo with QuickSilver.

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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sergeon

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August 21, 2007 5:04 PM

Whisky Tango Foxtrot...I can't seem to get into Charlie Oscar Delta.com

:(
- byorn
  
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  August 21, 2007 5:06 PM
  
  yeah, they REALLY need a better server for this sort of thing
  - bozer
    
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    August 21, 2007 5:14 PM
    
    Demand is just too high sometimes. Impossible to handle it I think. I've worked at a few companies where this same thing has happened with all the preparation in the world.
- byorn
  
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  August 21, 2007 5:09 PM
  
  lol...now the site is down for maintenance
- sergeon
  
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  August 21, 2007 5:23 PM
  
  Next time they should ninja the registration...and tell the shack first, of course.
  
  We need an agent to infiltrate infinity ward.
  - cookblaze
    
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    August 21, 2007 5:33 PM
    
    DK05 works there...but I don't see him post here much anymore.
- Fail_Safe
  
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  August 21, 2007 5:48 PM
  
  Damn, hopefully it'll be back up.