did you guys also wait like 15 min to download an MP3 be it from napster or whatever back in the day on dialup?:
i think hotline was more common here
or something like that
it was this thing where you connected to servers rather than users, kind of like ftp
starting off on mac's
August 1997 – Hotline is announced at MacWorld,[17] and allows chat, forums, and file transfers. It becomes popular among Mac users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_file_sharing
Timeline of file sharing :: This is a timeline of events in the history of file sharing.      1970s  1977 – Xmodem a point-to-point binary transfer protocol by Ward Christensen.  February 1978 – Ward Christensen's CBBS becomes the first Bulletin board system. BBS access is limited to phone lines until the early 1990s.  1979 – Usenet conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke Universit
Napster came 2 years later
yeh
and was only good for individual songs rather than albums
so was only really if you were into downloading "top songs"
and you could only go as fast as your peer
personally i bought 1 or 2 cd's a week back then
kazaa was where it split the file and did partial downloads
downloaded mp3s were usually terrible quality back then.
do you know how magent torrent links work?
using dht
i don't know how dht works though
well other than it's some kind of huge mesh thing
i'd like to see something like dht/bittorrent web sites..
appears to work like magic
without all the encryption etc of tor.
like "cloud" hosting..
where cloud means in the cloud, not a cloud server
TO THE CLOUD!!!
cloud is probably the most misunderstood, yet commonly used tech term
private cloud, public cloud, a VPS called cloud, a dedicated called cloud etc
yip
rackspace do dedicated cloud
what's dedicated cloud?
single tenant on a machine
bare metal
no virtualization
but provisioned like cloud so quick spin up of additional instances
I think a lot of people use cloud to mean quick
ahh
when i think cloud i think expensive hourly billing :)
Up to 36 processor cores and 1.5TB of RAM
if you need that many resources surely you some advance notice :)
and outside of IT it just means high-tech... like iCloud
heh when something begins with i i think low-tech
lol on microsoft pulling unlimited storage from their onedrive for business
apple are actually doing pretty well though
but their branding makes things seem terrible.
amazon are giving me cloud storage for a year
i don't want it though
"unlimited cloud storage"
Microsoft is ending unlimited OneDrive storage plans, citing user abuse, the company said in a blog post late Monday. Current unlimited users will be capped at 1 terabyte. It also plans to eliminate 100GB and 200GB plans, and offer a reduced 50GB plan for $1.99 per month instead. Its free offering will be cut from 15GB down to just 5GB.
valid until dec 31.
hmm is this why amazon are doing some free unlimited storage cloud?
apparently it's because i purchased a ssd.
Unlimited Photo Storage
i have unlimited everything
special for newzealand?
oh some lame desktop app
nope special for the US
go figure
This offer is valid until December 31, 2015 in the US only and cannot be shared with anyone else. Your
usually the people ~.
usually the people saying i* think it's high tech at least
i'm not doing freight forwarding or anything. i don't trust those places.
and it's like $6 or $7 usd to ship a ssd.
so not insane shipping costs.
i wonder how much people were storing on unlimited
oh, some users had 75+ TB
i wonder how long that took to fill :)
That's what she said!!
damn these sandisk ssd's are cheap
i assume it's some pre-thanksgiving sale or such
(75 terabytes) / (100 (megabits per second)) = 69.4444444 days
double the days if you go down to 50mbit etc
who even has 25 x 3TB drives on a single machine these days anyway?
you'd need more than that
imagine 25 disk raid 0
oh ... is this why comcast are introducing caps? :)
That's what she said!!
a drive just died.. i have to redownload the internet!