How to obtain a dump of the Mozilla Developer Network site - download

What size is the entire Mozilla Developer Network site? api.jquery.com is about 40MB when downloaded via wget.

As per bugzilla bug 757461 and the download section at the About page, MDN provides weekly snapshots of the entire site content available at:
(Updated link, but the content is old until this issue is fixed.)
https://mdn-downloads.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/developer.mozilla.org.tar.gz
It's approximately 8GB for the content.

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Azure Storage Account - blobs: Download over Storage Explorer = fast, https+sas over Browser = slow

I have 2 azure storage accounts (normal and premium / both in EU West) using the blob storage.
The problem occurres on both:
When downloading a file (15GB) using storage explorer (1.9) using azcopy, i get full download speed (up to 30MByte/sec).
When i generate an url+sas within the storage explorer and try to download the file in a browser (chrome, firefox), i only get 2-3 MByte/sec. (same computer and internet connection)
I tried to download over 3 different internet connections and different computers.
Is this a known limitation?
When azcopy advertise an improved transfer-method, where is the bottleneck when downloading with a browser?

Any idea why images are occasionally breaking?

I just upgraded from a Windows 2003 Server (IIS 6) to a Windows 2012 R2 (IIS 8.5). I don't think it matters, but I also upgraded from ColdFusion 9 to ColdFusion 11. All of a sudden images would show as missing. For example, in the search results, the image with the first result will be broken. When I refresh the page, it is there.
I just can't figure it out and our Marketing VP is getting a little antsy... understandably so.
I view the source and the image path is correct. I even copy and paste it into the browser and the image shows.
Has anyone else experienced this? I appreciate any advice you may offer.
Take a look at your browser's Dev Tools (this is from Chrome). There should be a Network panel that will show all the images being loaded on your site. If there are any real missing images, you'll see a status of 404 (Not Found), otherwise you should see 200 (OK) or 304 (Not Modified). You'll also see a time column that can tell you if any images are just taking some time to load.
If you're directly showing the image on the page simply by sourcing the image file itself, then your latency shouldn't have anything to do with ColdFusion.
<img src="/path/to/some.jpg">
But if you're loading the images using cfcontent, then you need to figure out what's going on in relation to ColdFusion.
<img src="/path/to/some.cfm?fileID=1234">
Our upgrade from CF 9 to CF 2016 with an upgrade to Windows server on the 2016 boxes is in our Beta environment at the moment and we haven't seen any issues related to loading files (jpg, gif, doc(x), xls(x)) via cfcontent.
I finally figured this out. On our 32-bit 2003 servers, we had to use the Ionic Rewriting tool. Great tool, truly. I installed that on our new 64-bit 2012 server (yes, I used the new 64 bit version). I really don't know why, but when I installed thet Microsoft IIS rewrite module, wrote the filters and uninstalled the Ionic ISAPI filter... voila! The problem went away. I guess the Ionic rewrite tool doesn't play as well with IIS 8.5 as I'd hoped.

Convert temporary download links (URLs) to permanent links

Particularly on sites like YouTube the download link is a temporary link which for me more often than not expires roughly after 5 hours.I like using YouTube to watch tutorials and stuff.I prefer downloading tuts overnight since watching them at HD is impossible due to a slow internet connection.
Before I sleep I pile like 10 episodes of my tutorials to my download manager , in the morning only to find a few completed and the rest failed since the link expired.
My question is how can I download seamlessly e.g
copy temporary link
paste it some where
wait a few secs to mins
get permanent link
add to my download manager
How can I pull this of using a virtual private server (Mine is Windows) ,using some webgui like download manager (please suggest one as I have not found one that is easy to use) OR is there any other way to do this (since i don't have much storage in my VPS).
Hoping a for method that works for all site not only Youtube.
After much scouring the web a good solution was to run Free Download Manager Remote control server or Uget on the VPS.Then use open source file manager scripts to access the download directory.Then there after copying the permanent link to the local download manager.

Modern IE Windows 10 Virtualbox for Mac Zip file corrupt

I have been downloading the zip file containing the Windows 10 virtual machine for Virtualbox on Mac several times from the website below:
http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/mac/
It unzips to a .cpgz file, when you extract that file it results in a zip file and so on... This blog http://osxdaily.com/2013/02/13/open-zip-cpgz-file/ suggests its a corrupt zip file.
I also tried the multipart download with the same result, so I assume the VM / Zip is broken.
Did anyone use this VM with success on Mac?
Files are zip64 and you will need a tool that supports it. We recommend using "The Unarchiver" in the instructions, page 2 Mac section.
The blog you point is from 2013 and the Windows 10 VMs weren't available back then.
Beware that currently there is an issue with Microsoft Edge in that specific VM: the userAgent and the headers sent by the browser are no the right ones so some websites don't work as expected. If you can download the PC version it will work OK on your Mac.
If you have any other issue with the website please let me know and I'll work on fixing it asap.
Edit: There is no longer any issue with the userAgent and the headers

Joomla content not displaying on other computers

I've build a Joomla website and it has been online for like 2 years now, always worked fine.
Recently I added a Google maps plugin and changed some header images.
Strange thing is, those changes are only displaying on my own laptop. The problem is not that I'm by accident viewing a local website, I'm 100% visiting the website online. I just opened the website on chrome with www.mywebsite.com and it displays all changes made in the backend. When I log out and back in again to the backend trough /administrator I can see the changes.
Now when I open the website on another computer (tried like three different ones), the changes are not displaying. Even when I log in to the backend through /administrator, still online on the same network, I am not seeing the changes made on my laptop and vice versa.
Frontend sometimes can have problems with caching, but the cache is disabled so this can't be the problem. And even if so, why would the backend display other data on 2 different computers..?
Also I've already tried removing the browser cache on those other computers.
Has anyone experienced this problem? I'm guessing it might be a problem on the side of my hosting company..
It had to do with a rule in the hosts-file on my laptop which directed to an old location/ip-adress of the website which has been moved to another server.

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