Re: What's with Linear Technology's "Download Request?"

From: Spehro Pefhany (speffSNIP_at_interlogDOTyou.knowwhat)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:27:26 -0400

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:56:44 +0000 (UTC), the renowned Uwe Bonnes
<bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

>Ken Smith <kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote:
>: In article <ck7b3n0a1k@news2.newsguy.com>,
>: Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> wrote:
>: >Hi:
>: >
>: >It seems LTC requires registration to download LTSpice now.
>
>: It looks like someone let the idiots loose on the web site. They make
>: parts not profiles of men looking slightly upwards.
>
>: Lucky for mankind, they don't check any of the entries on the sign up web
>: page.
>
>: They've made the text smaller so they can fit the silly border around the
>: outside.
>
>: There are errors in the Java-script so that "view category" doesn't work
>: on at least one page.
>
>: The whole site just flat looks silly.
>
>: Hopefully they will shoot whoever corrupted the web site and put the good
>: one back up.
>
>They also renamed all the data*** pdfs to some silly name, like
>http://www.linear.com/pc/downloadDocument.do?navId=H0,C1,C1003,C1040,C1055,P7544,D5128
>
>Argh!

Yeah, but look at their cool "404 Error" page:

http://www.linear.com/prod/data***.html?data***=1169

That photo is probably adding $1000/month to their bandwidth bill. ;-)