After getting the new server mostly set up, and the main wad of data copied over to it, I find I've got an embarrassment of free space. Alas, no matter how much space is free, there's never quite enough--with the paranoid partitioning scheme, there's not enough space for all of Project Gutenberg, which weighs in at about 35G, doubling yearly. (According to their warnings, at least)
CPAN, OTOH, is less than 2G, and there's plenty of space for that. Hmmmm....
It's a damn shame my upstream bandwidth's so restricted, or I'd act as a mirror site, not that it looks like either really needs one. Still, I feel kinda bad about sucking down and holding all this data without giving back somehow. A few CPAN modules doesn't seem to measure up, and I don't think the Dunsany I've got's out of copyright yet. :(
Posted by Dan at September 15, 2003 02:20 PM | TrackBack (0)Still, I feel kinda bad about sucking down and holding all this data without giving back somehow.Yeah, you need to give back to the community. You could write a few modules for CPAN, or work on Perl 6, or write documentation, or join an online forum where you can help newbies.
Or you could just keep doing what you're doing, and not worry about it. :)
Posted by: Louis_Wu at September 15, 2003 04:34 PMFair enough on the CPAN end of things, and if I feel really bad I can airmail out some white cheddar cheeze-its. Still leaves PG, though. I'll have to go dig out that Dunsany and check the dates.
Posted by: Dan at September 15, 2003 06:28 PMDan, don't get too worried about filling up all that nice disk space. Remember, data is a gas, and expands to fill the space available to it. You'll be filling up those empty drive bays before you know it.
Posted by: Brad Hughes at September 16, 2003 04:00 PMHeh... I've got half a terabyte showing up in the next few weeks. But I've also invested in a 5400 dpi scanner, so I'm sure it'll fill up fast enough.
Text is tiny compared to imaging data.
Posted by: Piers Cawley at September 19, 2003 02:21 PM