Google Hardware in 1998
I remember in 1997 when someone first pointed me to http://google.stanford.edu a student project that was supposed to beat out WebCrawler as a search engine. I wasn't too impressed at the time... It's interesting to think how huge Google has become and how I don't really use anything else to search the web. Let alone the dozens of other services I use Google for regularly. At the time the Google.standford.edu homepage looked something like , complete with the default to only show 10 results.
What is even more impressive is the hardware that ran google back then:
- 2 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 9 9G drives between the two machines. The main search engine ran on these.
- An IBM RS6000 with 4 processors and 512MB of memory. It had 8 9G drives internal.
- A Machine with 3 9G drives, and there are 6 4G drives attached to a Sun Ultra II.
- An IBM disk expansion box had another 8 9G drives.
- A Sun Ultra II with dual 200MHz processors, and 256MB of RAM.
- A homemade disk box which contains 10 9G SCSI drives.
All of Google in 1998 as a whole:
Ubuntu Linux Under Windows? Introducing Wubi
I've had a lot of people ask me lately to help them with something because they "don't have Linux". I always have to ask, how can you NOT have Linux when virtually every Linux distribution is FREE? Most of us geeks realize that the average computer user is scared of the unknown. Average users aren't interested in partitioning their drives. A common myth is that you'll lose your windows installation. The past few weeks I find myself constantly pointing people to WUBI, so alas, a blog post with a bit of explanation.
When I hear these sorts of things, I point people to WUBI. Wubi is not a Linux distribution of its own, but rather an installer for Ubuntu Linux that installs under windows, without formatting or partitioning your hard drive. It also uninstalls just like any other windows program. So basically if you can install Yahoo messenger, you can install Linux.
Once installed, reboot your machine and you will be presented with a boot menu that lets you choose your Windows installation or Ubuntu. It runs Ubuntu not as a virtual machine, but creates a stand alone installation on a disk image stored on your windows file system. The only serious limitation of running Ubuntu in this manner is the lack of hibernation support.
A side note from Wikipedia:
While Wubi does not install Ubuntu directly to its own partition this can also be accomplished by using LVPM, the Loopmounted Virtual Partition Manager, to transfer the Wubi-generated Ubuntu installation to a dedicated real partition, including a bootable USB keydrive. The advantage of this setup is that users can test the operating system and install the drivers before they install it to a dedicated partition (and avoid booting and functioning risks).
Linux Command Line Tools for CMD.EXE
For me, I find the linux command line like a second home. When I'm on Windows, I find that I live in CMD.EXE a majority of the time -- I usually always have a command prompt open. Aside from everything about Windows that drives me insane on a regular basis, I find the command prompt almost useless by itself, especially when compared to linux.
How often do you hop on a windows command prompt and type 'ls' instead of 'dir'? Somewhere along the way I started collecting small collections of Linux tools that run in the windows command prompt. Every few months someone else asks if I can send them my archive of tools as they don't want to deal with msys or cygwin... These are from various sources over the years, including various collections of others.
The full list of programs included in the archive is here: http://www.brian-shaffer.com/dls/nixutils.txt
Download the archive here: http://www.brian-shaffer.com/dls/nixutils.zip
Just add it to your path environment variable.
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