just found this related bit at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/01/18/brewster.html which may be helpful *Kahle:* We use as much open source software as we can; we make as much of our software as we can open because we're a library. The idea is to help people make sense of the Net and we leverage all the open tools. Alexa put up a television archive called tvarchive.org <http://tvnews3.televisionarchive.org/tvarchive/html/> , which is televison news from around the world from Sept. 11 to Sept. 18. Twenty channels in Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Iraqi. Iraqi television is really interesting. So in three weeks, Alexa took all these recordings from tape, massaged them, put them online, and converted them into several different formats. The only way to do this is to cross-cluster hundreds of commodity Linux boxes and use freeware tools, all of which barely work.
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