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Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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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.

I can't seem to contact the tracker. Does it work for other people?

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!

Normal HTTP link:

http://www.frob.nl/tmp/Don-Knuth.mp4

Now that avar has posted a .torrent, I've removed this file.

I love that he uses transparencies on an overhead projector. That's true old-school.

This is awesome. The funny just doesn't stop.

Anyone have a quick summary of what this is even about?

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.

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?

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.

Different strokes, I guess. I take 34 minutes out of my day to watch a Knuth video every chance I get.

I fucking hate these videos. Why they don't even provide summary in the web page?

Be patient. With the new revolutionary product by Knuth, the summary will be generated automatically.

I can't wait to use ǐTéx (ring-a-ding)!

Quick summary from /.: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1705630&cid=... for those with no patience who want to get to the joke.

Please post your mirrors here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yzu0w5xnmkk

No need to. Once the system becomes available, it'll post itself.

Has anyone been able to get into http://projectmarianne.com , the site about this project?

Society has a little bit of iTex in all its products.

This is a very slow site. Is there a mirror for this?

Anyone who wants to mirror can try downloading the video from http://media.river-valley.tv/conferences/tug-2010/Don-Knuth....

Don't get impatient: For me, there was a delay of several minutes between HTTP-request and its response.

fyi: The new product would speed up such sites, using it's cloud technology built-in, or as a plugin.

please explain what is fyi?

For Your Information, a pre-internet acronym.

The name of the company that Murphy Brown worked for.

The best thing is somewhere someone is probably working on actually implementing this, like so many XKCD cartoons.

Yeah it never actually loaded for me :(

WOW, a black page

the bell is awesome :)

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