1.5GB?
Their compression algorithm sucks!
Top marks to BioWare which yesterday pumped out a downloadable module for Mass Effect 2. The only problem: the DLC consisted of nothing but zeros - all 1.5GB of it. Dubbed Lair of the Shadowbroker, the DLC went live yesterday evening. Within minutes, fans reported that the installer failed to work on their PCs. At first, …
1.5GB of 48K =
1.5 / 1024 = 1536 MB / 1024 = 1572864 KB
1572864 / 48 = 32768
So. 1 BF (BiowareFail) is equal to 32768 DS (Dead Speccys)
also, as I pionted out on their forums a little earlier -
for any penguin lovers who want their very own bioware DLC for completely free, just run this command!
dd if=/dev/zero of=foobar count=1572864 bs=1024
won't even use up your download allowance :D
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"Do you reckon someone did a
cat /dev/zero > MassEffectDLC2.exe"
You know, in all seriousness, I bet someone actually did (or, the "dd if=/dev/zero of=MassEffectDLC2.exe bs=1024 count=1572864" so the size could be specified) to generate a fake file to seed on P2P networks. And then due to a mixup it was put up as the real DLC.