Category Archives: Hardware

Open Hardware: Inexpensive Enclosures From Junction Boxes.

I had a need for a cheap, standard enclosure for a humidity and temperature monitoring project. While there are many, many options for enclosures out there, few are cheap AND locally available. It occurred to me that electrical junction boxes … Continue reading

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The Fourth Generation Petabox

Behind all the cool stuff users see on archive.org is some serious hardware. I was curious about the ongoing development of data storage here at Internet Archive. I spent a little time with Mario, Master of the Machines, while he … Continue reading

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100 dollar laptop & Archive books

We now have a one of the beta 100 dollar laptops and the Internet Archive / Open Content Alliance books are looking good! (see the attached picture) The reason we are privileged in getting one of the first 600 beta … Continue reading

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Aug 22nd: Datacenter move

We are consolidating our San Francisco datacenters today, August 22nd, so we apologize for the disruption you will experience. We expect services to be mostly whole by the end of today, and stragglers by the end of tomorrow. -brewster

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