[geeks] Cheaper 1600SW adapter

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:23:29PM -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 
> >http://tinyurl.com/yq4z7
> >
> >75 Euros allows you to use a 1600SW on a Mac/PC/anything DVI, instead of
> >having to pay hundreds of dollars for the SGI multilink adapter.
> > 
> >
> How long does tinyurl.com keep those redirects active?  I'm guessing 
> that it's a matter of months at most.  That doesn't doo much good to 
> someone who comes across this post in the archives a year from now, and 
> would really like to know where they could get an adapter such as the 
> one linked to above.  Does anyone know how long tinyurl works for?  I 
> can't find that detail on their website.


TinyURL.com says redirects will remain active "until they run out of
space".  Many of us assumed that this meant when they hit zzzz or
someting, they'd roll over and start re-using them.  In fact, what
happened was they added a fifth character and continued.

I just tried http://tinyurl.com/aaaa and http://tinyurl.com/1111.  Both
resolved, though the pages they point to no longer exist.  In other
words, it appears in many cases the TinyURL will outlast the page it
points to.



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