Noisy... bad lights... too warm... needing fresh air.... argh. Maybe we should be calling the SPCA for those hamsters?
Noisy... bad lights... too warm... needing fresh air.... argh. Maybe we should be calling the SPCA for those hamsters?
very interesting, so why will be the thread not mark as sticky? :-)
Can anyone with the requisite skills give me a very-rough-ballpark-figure of the total amount of storage (in MB or GB whatever) in all those servers? Just curious, that's all.
Just a wild guess, not having any idea of the HD sizes of the machines in question, but I'd assume, given what would be typical for such, the total data storage capacity there would run well into the TerraBytes.
Cheers, Timberlandko. I thought it would be a fair amount!
So, as near as can be, this actually is part of the real-life physical 'Internet'? Cool.
Any machine on the 'net is part of the 'net; that's what its all about. A serverfarm such as the one hosting A2K typically however is connected directly to the "Backbone" of the 'net.
Grand Duke wrote:Can anyone with the requisite skills give me a very-rough-ballpark-figure of the total amount of storage (in MB or GB whatever) in all those servers? Just curious, that's all.
The average box there will have about 60 GB.
I remember those big boxes/maschines back in the early 70's at my university in rooms as big as on the pic:
my actual computer is said to have nearly twice their capacity.
Walter, in the pics the servers are about as big as your PC, they are on racks.
I know - at first [1970] they had a "Telefunken-Konstanz TR 440", later in the early 80's a "Cyber 205". (Sadly, I can just refer to "at first". - Actually, I had nothing to do with - just helping my friend, who studied mathematics, 'feeding' this 'thing' :wink: )
Hamsters? You're running a giant server with HAMSTERS? Wow. They must be pretty bloody fit, running on wheels all day, chasing the peanut butter!
Hee hee!
It's very exciting to watch, more exciting than watching paint dry, or watching grass grow, but less exciting than painting grass and watching it dry as the grass grows!
What an expressionistic cutie he is, lifting, lifting.
Dunno Thok, didn't figure anyone would care much about the thread, especially not to see it more than once. The web cams get boring qyickly, I only saw a person on them once.
timberlandko wrote:Any machine on the 'net is part of the 'net; that's what its all about. A serverfarm such as the one hosting A2K typically however is connected directly to the "Backbone" of the 'net.
That's what I was getting at. Good job in decoding my post!
Timber--
Re the picture: Aren't steroids illegal? Or are the rules on the web different?
