Comment: Or don't use XP.. (Score 0, Informative) 324
How many people were still using 3.1 in 2002? If you're still using XP at this point you deserve every problem you get.
Comment: It'll never happen (Score 3, Insightful) 554
NASA is terrible with arbitrary deadlines. Remember how the Mars rovers were only supposed to work for 90 days? They've been at it for years now. The date will be pushed back over and over again.
Wikipedia Gears Up For Explosion In Digital Media 141
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from the until-there-is-only-one-site-on-the-internet dept.
from the until-there-is-only-one-site-on-the-internet dept.
jbrodkin writes "Wikipedia is gearing up for an explosion in digital content with new servers and storage designed to handle larger photo and video uploads.
Until early 2008, the user-generated encyclopedia's primary media file server had just 2TB of total space, which was not enough to hold growing amounts of video, audio and picture files, says CTO Brian Vibber.
'For a long time, we just did not have the capacity [to handle very large media files],' he says.
Wikipedia has raised media storage from 2TB to 48TB and the limit on file uploads from 20MB to 100MB. Ultimately, Wikipedia wants to eliminate any practical size limits on uploads, potentially allowing users to post feature length, high-quality videos.
'The limits will get bigger and bigger to where it will be relatively easy for someone who has a legitimate need to upload a two-hour video of good quality,' Vibber says."
Comment: Re:Not a good week and it's only 1/2 over (Score -1, Troll) 210
If all you read is Slashdot you'd think Windows would've been gone long ago and Linux would reign supreme. Fortunately in the real world that's not how things work. You're just the equivalent of a Neo-Con who gets all his news from the Free Republic.