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Comment by sylvinus | Hacker News Reader

hi guys. I'm Sylvain who solved the thing, thanks for relaying the info here! :)

The blog indeed crashed, it's on a very small VM with a remote filesystem and even with a WP cache plugin.. not so much luck, even with apache stopped.

However our company blog has a proper sysadmin ;-) So after I setup a redirect there no more issues... until we get on slashdot maybe ? :)

Cheers!

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From the screenshot of the form you got after solving the equation, it looks like you need to have a U.S. address to receive the Cr-48, and it would appears poor you're located in Paris/Luxembourg. You need someone to forward it on to you? ;)

yes that's also a funny side of the story. As I was going trough the border on tethering, with barely any cellphone reception, I was trying to fill out the "one-time" form without any U.S. address in mind ;-) Luckily I have a cousin in Houston so gave him a quick call to get his address and I submitted the form as soon as I got my data link back up :)

generally speaking, it's extremely frustrating for an european startup to see these regular U.S. only launches from Google. (come to mind Google Voice, ebookstore, google music, and now Cr-48...) But well, small price to pay to enjoy living in Paris most of the time :)

As a European working at Google (and there are plenty of us), I feel your pain. However, although so many things are easy to scale internationally, products with licensing and regulations are not in that category. We do work actively on making this less and less the case, though.

yes, indeed. I can imagine carrier or licensing deals being complex... that's why I said we were just frustrated, not angered against Google :)

Cool that you work on the Chrome team. Can you share more insider info with us about this story and its makeof ? ;-) thanks!

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