Speed up the fade transition on the status box

While it looks kinda nice, some people might not apprecieate that it
takes so much time for the page to pop up and it looks like the page
froze or something.
Replace current checkRemoteFile function with a faster cURL implementation

Instead of downloading the entirity of the file that's there or risking
a HTTP server not being on port 80, I've decided to move with a faster,
more efficient and web browser complient cURL query

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