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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