On Jan 20, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Mark wrote:

>
> Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> On Jan 20, 2009, at 10:04 AM, richardsan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ...watching history;today.
>>>
>>
>> Damn fascists at CNN deliberately broke their video servers JUST as
>> Obama started to take the oath.
>>
>> Ok, ok, it may not have been the damn fascists at CNN, it MIGHT have
>> had something to do with the 7.8 gazillion people tuning in to watch.
>> I sure wouldn't want to be their web engineers today.
>>
>> Vaporized server dust is probably pretty unhealthy.
>>
>>
> http://newsticker.welt.de/?module=smarthouse&id=835149
> Akamai Delivers Record Streaming and Web Content During Historic
> Presidential Inauguration

I was just about to post their traffic link:

<http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/news/index.html>

5th highest peak ever.

(position 1 is Obama's election night victory, followed by the US  
losing in soccer to Ghana, and three different years of NCAA  
basketball Day 1 coverage...)

No wonder every feed I saw was stuttering and stalling.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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