Spilling the beans of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Redux
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| 18:20 UK time, Monday, 27 October 2008
Brandon Butterworth is Principal Technologist and one of those famous names you hear in the air of corridors all over the ´óÏó´«Ã½. In his post for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet Blog he spills the full beans on what the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Redux project is and why it came about. All in his own words, there's some choice quotes such as...
In the summer of 2007, freetards (me too), the OSC and others were calling for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to make iPlayer cross-platform, and the Trust had committed the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to doing this.
At Mashed08, we let the public see and use one of our development front ends for the first time with the freshly-hacked that week subtitle support - so new it was still being worked on through the Saturday.
Redux consists of three racks of equipment - two are storage nodes - 342TB according to the disk manufacturers, 297TB of usable space with 152K programme files so far.
You can read the whole thing on the internet blog...
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