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How the Wayback Machine Works

In the Wayback Machine, currently there are 10 billion Web pages, collected over five years. That amounts to 100 terabytes, which is 100 million megabytes. So if a book is a megabyte, which is about what it is, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books, that’s 20 terabytes. This is 100 terabytes. At that size, this is the largest database ever built. It’s larger than Walmart’s, American Express’, the IRS. It’s the largest database ever built. And it’s receiving queries — because every page request when people are surfing around is a query to this database — at the rate of 200 queries per second.

How the Wayback Machine Works

In the Wayback Machine, currently there are 10 billion Web pages, collected over five years. That amounts to 100 terabytes, which is 100 million megabytes. So if a book is a megabyte, which is about what it is, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books, that’s 20 terabytes. This is 100 terabytes. At that size, this is the largest database ever built. It’s larger than Walmart’s, American Express’, the IRS. It’s the largest database ever built. And it’s receiving queries — because every page request when people are surfing around is a query to this database — at the rate of 200 queries per second.

Lost Programming The travels of an accidental programmer

Lost Programming The travels of an accidental programmer

Dan has a great Linux quote over on flutterby

What high-level decision makers should realize is that Linux is already being clandestinely deployed in their server rooms, not for cost reasons, but for functionality reasons. Open Source may actually cost more than proprietary software if you’re customizing it and adding patches back to the code and using it in the spirit that it’s written. But the point is that you can’t save your way to profitability; at some point you have to be able to do things better and quicker and more reliably than your competitors; cheaper just makes you the next KMart.

Dan has a great Linux quote over on flutterby

What high-level decision makers should realize is that Linux is already being clandestinely deployed in their server rooms, not for cost reasons, but for functionality reasons. Open Source may actually cost more than proprietary software if you’re customizing it and adding patches back to the code and using it in the spirit that it’s written. But the point is that you can’t save your way to profitability; at some point you have to be able to do things better and quicker and more reliably than your competitors; cheaper just makes you the next KMart.

The Lord of the Rings Lego Styled

The Lord of the Rings Lego Styled

“I have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

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I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

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I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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Whose words continue to have meaning today.