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Authored by: robg on Sep 23, '03 07:52:52AM
Please read the original hint carefully and check the links and the wget example -- I did not do a wget on the original Virginia Tech site. I did a wget on the full mirror, where the top of the page reads:
This is a mirror of the pictures of the Terascale cluster which is made up of 1,100 PowerMac G5s. The original site was firewalled, apparently due to the Slashdot effect. Bring it on!
Note: The emphasis on "Bring it on!" was not added by me; it's there (still there today) on the original page. Based on that comment, I felt fine posting a wget to the mirror (and it's not like sucking down a site is a big secret -- as others have pointed out, there are quite a few GUI tools that do it more easily than wget or curl).

The only link in the hint that goes to Virigina Tech goes to their main information page, and I hope you're not advocating that I don't post those any more...

-rob.

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