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The Ultimate All-In-One Storage Solution
karnifex writes "Filled up your LaCie Bigger Disk already, and looking for a little more storage space? Good news! The Petabox is ready! 'The petabox by the Internet Archive is a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information (a petabyte is a million gigabytes).' And luckily, as the Internet Archive notes, it's shipping-container friendly (20' x 8' x 8'). So save on delivery costs and order two!"
My million monkeys at a million terminals will have somewher to save all their potential Shakespeare works.
But the question is, do my monkeys use VI or Emacs? That shall remain a mystery.
Imagine all the Spice Girls' songs you could save on that thing...wow...
MY SECRET DIARIES
...drumroll
Peta-files
if you still enjoy wearing furs??
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How many LOCs/VW Bug?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Can we say, Goooooooooooooooogle?
20 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet eh.... I thought they had that in the 1970s
Wrong
One PetaByte is 1,000 TeraBytes which are 1,000,000 GigaBytes wich are 1,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes wich are 3.35 LotsOfPr0n.
I just updated my old stone disk (it was erroding) with the latest gerbil in a wheel (I couldn't afford the guinea pig) with awesome seek times (he can seek food in less than 30 nanoseconds) and at least double-digit RPMs.
Though it says Linux is the standard OS, I'm hoping they plan on optimizing for Longhorn... so far this is the only system out that can meet Longhorns recommended disk capacity and RAM requirements. ...now if they could only find a way to fit all that into a mini-ATX tower.
one petabyte ought to be good enough for anybody
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
After extensive market research, it has been determined that a "buttload" is roughly 3.5 gigabytes.
In case you were wondering.
It's my favorite unit of measure.
Coincidentally, I have a buttload of porn.
See? Those Longhorn specs are quite easy to achieve... Now let's sit back and wait for Intel or AMD to come up with a 1x1x1m slab of silicon that can melt graphite and run Longhorn at the same time!
Hate me!
1 MILLION GIGS! BAH! That isn't news unless they convert it to some entirely inappropiate metric. How many Library of Congresses is this? How many 128kbps MP3s can you store on it. And most importantly, how many floppy disks is this equivalent too?!
Caffeine Good
Almost a Petabit though.
Omnis amans amens
Office manager: "Hey, Adam, do you know why our power usage might have gone up this last month?"
I surreptitiously conceal the firewire cable going out the side door.
Adam: "No, John, I haven't the foggiest."
OM: "Ok, well I'll ask Kim when I talk to her about the strange shipping container outside. Thanks."
-Adam
... and pretty soon you're talking REAL storage.
you perverts try to hide your pr0n, but we know what you do with these things...
In his novel 3001 Arthur C. Clarke asserted/speculated that one petabyte would be sufficient space to store a lifetime's memories. (He didn't say if this was compressed.)
So, assuming you can handle the trivial exercise of transferring your memories (the implementation of which is left as an exercise for the reader), immortality is yours for the buying!
The United States of America: We mean well.
This is totally unnecessary. EVERYONE knows we only need 640k
MY SECRET DIARIES
Duke Nukem Forever is "ready"!
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
I'm guessing they were referring to themselves, not google.
Please help metamoderate.
Ya but what a rack it is.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
...but I mean in 400 years how is anyone going to know what we were like...
What tiny fraction of our history is actually preserved in a useful manner will be misinterpreted and spun in ways you can't possibly imagine. 400 years from now you will be known as an ignorant fool guilty of untold crimes against lord knows whom. This will be true regardless of the quality of the archive used to figure you out.
So don't worry about it.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Good, now I don't need to delete my spam.
given that monkeys have basically four hands I think they'd be more suited for emacs (alt-meta-control-super-hyper-shift-q) than vi ;-)
I have been using emacs for nearly 10 years now and I swear sometimes I have been seriously considering adding a foot pedal or 2 to my setup (besides control, shift and meta I also routinely use Super and Hyper, xmodmap is great!)
-- the cake is a lie
If you gave me a 100 mbit line, it would take me over 92 days to fill it up with porn. More if I slept.
yeah, but if you looked closer, it's the same 6 gigs over and over again.
I'm just gonna get 1,000,000 free Gmail addresses and email all my data to myself 1 Gb at a time.
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
Good luck trying to create a taxonomy to organize a PB worth of objects much less a file system! /dev/FrigginHUGE
Does that make you a petaphile?
[massive karma burn detected]
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
Is there enough disk space left to do anything useful after installing WinXP on it?
... but honestly, that's a lotta pr0n!
Life is what happened when Good Intentions met Harsh Reality (the brother of the more infamous Chaos).