Nov. 7th, 2007

janewilliams20: (geek)
Site moved to new host, new front page done (no, it isn't arty, but it's got all the links I wanted, and a Picture). Mail server tested and working. All is well.
http://www.jane-williams.me.uk/
janewilliams20: (haiku impossible)
I think I've got the text clearer this time. No anti-aliasing, not bold, and one px size bigger. Also moved further up.
janewilliams20: (haiku impossible)
No, not for me. This is something I found through an on-line story I read, and thought I'd spread. Let me cut&paste....

A young woman in the USA is trying to raise money for necessary medical procedures, but she’s not doing it by soliciting donations or asking people to buy anything… she’s taking advantage of the file hosting service megaupload.com’s reward program… a real, actual program that gives people cash rewards for using their service, presumably as a means of stealth advertising. Simply put: enough people download a file that she has hosted, and she gets a nice chunk of change. "This program states if I get 5 million downloads, they will pay me $10,000" she says: obviously impossible, but she's trying it anyway. I like that.

The file? Nothing arduous, onerous, or dangerous… a plain text file, as in, *.txt, which anybody can tell you cannot contain or execute a virus. If you save a virus as something.txt and try to open it, you’d just get a bunch of gobbledygook in Notepad. I’ve downloaded it myself, and it’s nothing more than a simple text description of her plight and her plan. One download per day, per IP address.
If the USA had a health system that worked, she wouldn't have to do this. But it doesn't.



She's also on LiveJournal as [livejournal.com profile] redscorner (that's her personal jounal) and has another LJ account dedicated to this project [livejournal.com profile] projectdownload

So if you nice people wouldn't mind going over there and downloading a little file? Maybe even bookmark it, and download once a day? It can't hurt you, it might help her. And megaupload obviously think something's impossible. Let's prove them wrong.

Quick edit: it occurs to me that I have a lot of very computer-savvy friends out there whose first thought may be "script!". We do not want to sabotage this lady's efforts by geting caught doing any such thing: so, while I can't stop you, please don't. Or don't tell anyone if you do. If you can do such a thing, you probably know better than I do whether it counts as "cheating", but let's not take chances.

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