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Jan 23, 2002, 5:23 AM
Wil
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Interesting artcile about how the wayback machine works, and how it can handle 100 terabytes of information - "about five times as large as the Library of Congress, with its 20 million books." Wow!

http://www.oreillynet.com/.../01/18/brewster.html

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Jan 23, 2002, 5:39 AM
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Thats a lot of disk space. 1000Gb's to a terrabype isnt it??? Tongue

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Jan 23, 2002, 5:58 AM
Wil
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Exactly exactly 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes.

http://www.archive.org/xterabytes.html

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Jan 23, 2002, 5:58 AM
Paul
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Hmm it would be so much better is it grabbed the images properly
Jan 23, 2002, 6:01 AM
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Or the whole lot is:

109951162777600 bytes.

109951162777.6 kilobytes.

109951162.7776 megabytes.

109951.1627776 gigabytes.

109.9511627776 terabytes.

(to be precise Tongue)

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Jan 23, 2002, 6:45 AM
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In Reply To:
(to be precise Tongue)

That's very unprecise, in fact it's plain wrong! And nobody seems to notice...

100 Terabytes =
102400 gigabytes =
104857600 megabytes =
107374182400 kilobyts =
109951162777600 bytes

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Jan 23, 2002, 6:48 AM
Paul
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>>That's very unprecise<<

So sue me.

I couldn't be bothered to be exact about dividing by 1024 so just did 1000. Cool

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Jan 23, 2002, 10:13 AM
Paul
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Hmm I wanna know how you spider the whole internet :)
Jan 23, 2002, 11:55 AM
Wil
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edited..

I get most of my Tech news, articles, interviews, bookreviews and so forth from slashdot.org.

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Jan 23, 2002, 12:02 PM
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microsoft.com

Is this a game of random site names?