So I'm back from last weeks course and I'm all knowledged up. In case you are curious it was a Solaris 10 course, I seriously doubt you are interested, unless you have some strange obversion to operating systems... snigger, snigger....but I did find out something that absolutely blew me away, not because it was new or cool, but simply because of the sheer size of it.... Ok let me explain, Solaris 10 includes a new disk file system, this file system is call ZFS and it is 128bit, file systems currently in use are 32bit and have a limit of how much data can be stored on them, ZFS has a limit aswell but being 128bit that limit is exponentially larger.... So large that it is almost incomprehensible. On a single ZFS filesystem you can store 16 Exabytes That's 16 x 1024^6 bytes or 18446744073709551616 bytes. That's a number so huge that the Project leader of the ZFS team from SUN, Jeff Bonwick was quoted as saying, "Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans." Read the Wiki entry that I linked to earlier to get a clarification on that.... It's absolutely mind numbing!

Anyway, this is supposed to be a music blog, so with out further ado, here is an Aphex Twin video clip that I like....