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@asqwasqw
AFAIK = as far as I know (I should probably try not to use so many acronyms...). Yes, you're right, sometimes I get carried away. Mainly, when new people show up here and the first thing they do is complain to us about Nokia it rubs me the wrong way. I guess I'm becoming a cranky old geek far before my time. Don't be afraid to call me on stuff like this in the future. In fact, I'd appreciate it.

@gnexus
Sorry if I cam across as too snarky. The constant repost of "the servers are slow" is just getting to me a little. Take what I said with a grain of salt, and also realize that the beating Nokia's download servers are taking is a sign of how many users are current N800/N810 owners who are interested in the new OS. Even the unofficial user mirrors have been transferring more than 7GB in an afternoon right around the 2008OS launch. Yes, Nokia should have had more bandwidth, but I have a feeling they really had no idea how many users were going to be stomping on their servers when this was released. What I'd really like to see from Nokia is a promise to get this bandwidth issue fixed ASAP, but also their transfer logs for launch day. I have a feeling that them coming along and saying "We had x many thousands of users downloading 2008OS on launch day!" would go a long way towards getting some more small commercial developers interested. Anyways, sorry if I cam across as too sarcastic/snarky in my reply to you. Hopefully you will stick around here and develop software for the Maemo environment (once you get a chance to download the SDK ).

-John