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Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling
*no comment* writes: "Linux has broken the barrier with the 100 petabyte ceiling, and
doing it at 144 petabytes." And this is even more impressive in pebibytes, too.
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Hm, that can't be right, I swear I heard it was supposed to be two raised to the power of 50, multiplied by 128.. hm.
when the rain comes, they run and hide their heads. they might as well be dead.
This would be handy for over 8200 years of DVD video.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
"144 PB should be enough for anybody."
- Bowie J. Poag, November 7, 2001
Bowie J. Poag
So you whip out your two hundred million cd recordables, and start inserting them. Let's say you get 1 frisbee for each 25 700Mb CDs.
This leaves you with eight million frisbees.
That's a stack 13 kilometres high.
So who needs this on a desktop OS again?
Free Java games for your phone: Tontie, Sokoban
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File 1 of 1: holodeck_program.hol downloading
122.5 PB of 160 EB downloaded @ 7 PB/Sec
6 hours, 29 minutes and 48 seconds remaining
Sigh...
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Keeping an archive of Slashdot. As the solar system's population grows and grows, it won't be long before every little news story gets a thousand comments per minute. There will be so many moderators that law of averages suggests that every comment will be modded up to 5, and in an ironic twist Slashdot will be flooded. Still, it's Slashdot, and no self-respecting high-bandwidth nerd will be without an up-to-date archive of Slashdot.
Leeching Aminet. By the time we actually have these monster size drives, processors will finally be fast enough to properly emulate an Amiga, WinUAE will have been perfected and bandwidth will be so plentiful that we can all enjoy the latest Amiga software, whether we want it or not.
Freaking out newbies. Remember your scriptkiddie days when you would h4x0r some dude's Windows machine and pop up something resembling the Matrix? Simply add a little matter-to-energy technology, and you can download the newbie onto his computer, FTP him along (resumable downloading, now, we don't want him to materialise with missing parts!) and rematerialise him in your fridge. He'll think he's been transported to some crazy ice planet. Just like in sci-fi, eh folks!
Somewhere to keep all your Pokémon hentai! Don't try and hide it, man. I've seen your sick pictures of Misty and Bulbasaur.
You'll finally have enough diskspace to install Windows 2024. Naturally, you'll be using Linux instead, but it's nice to brag that you could, if you wanted.
M$ Word 2003 XP/Professional Extended Special Edition
Carnivore
you would have IPv6 addresses left over even if you assigned an address for each byte on that disk.
this is just for perspective - not because you actually would.....