People taking advantage of CodeWeavers’ free software giveaway today have crashed the company’s servers. Besides my article, the giveaway got a huge push online — exactly what the company feared — through a posting at Digg. But don’t fret. While the company has disabled its main site, you can still get everything you need from the shell of a site the company has made available. It includes a link to get a serial number to register the programs as well as links to down load unlocked builds of its core products, which allow Mac and Linux systems to run Windows applications. Keep trying if you don’t get through on your first attempts.

“You will be able to unlock your serial number that was emailed to you for an extended time, (an additional 48 hours), due to this downtime,” the site explains. “We will simply stop giving out new serial numbers at 23:59 (Midnight) Central Standard Time.”

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