On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:47:23AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:47:45PM -0800, ckelty ckelty wrote: > > Only after hearing from Udhay by phone recently (Heil Udhay!) and > > unrelatedly, did I realize that I should have posted this here on > > silklist: > > > > http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012227143813304790.html > > > > I'm sure people here have opinions about the subject. In the last 10 > > Yes -- Gigapedia is not lost (only ~4% of it is missing from the Other Library > That Shall Not Be Named, and most of that will be probably recovered as > time passes). It is however very important to keep that other, more secret > library out of the limelight so it can be replicated more widely. So be aware > that it exists, but do not mention it prominently. Make private, > local mirrors if you want the body of survive (~8.5 TByte at the moment).
P.S. The costs for an appliance were some 1 kEUR using HP N40L with 8 GByte ECC RAM and napp-it with the AMP functionality installed, using 3-4 TByte drives (now unfortunately still expensive unobtainium) -- at the moment I would suggest a 6-8 drive appliance for higher redundancy (RAID10 or raidz-2) and room for growth. One would require a dual-core ARM (due to nature of the material, much of it is complex PDF documents with scans) tablet with WLAN issued for each student or researcher.
