Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

http://river-valley.tv/media/conferences/tug-2010/Don-Knuth/

by bitboxer • 16 years ago

67 32 16 years ago

zephjc2• 16 years ago

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

cicada2• 16 years ago

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

cstuder• 16 years ago

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

malkia2• 16 years ago

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

smallhands• 16 years ago

please explain what is fyi?

greenlblue• 16 years ago

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

setori88• 16 years ago

Please post your mirrors here.

cicada2• 16 years ago

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

malkia2• 16 years ago

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

billstr• 16 years ago

WOW, a black page

bluemoon• 16 years ago

Yeah it never actually loaded for me :(

jerguismi• 16 years ago

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

gnaffle• 16 years ago

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

warp2• 16 years ago

Normal HTTP link:

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

warp2• 16 years ago

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

ojilles• 16 years ago

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

michael_dorfman2• 16 years ago

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.

hugh3• 16 years ago

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?

zephjc2• 16 years ago

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

jarin• 16 years ago

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

cosmohh• 16 years ago

the bell is awesome :)

avar2• 16 years ago

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.

chronomex• 16 years ago

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

avar2• 16 years ago

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!

mark_h• 16 years ago

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

lvecsey• 16 years ago

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

coverband• 16 years ago

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

zck• 16 years ago

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

Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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