For those looking for the faq on that page :) http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2003-07/2406.html
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:27:17AM -0500, Cary Fitch wrote: > >> It uses proprietary EDC. (Extreme Data Compression) The 140 bytes at 8 >> bits each, and that is 2^140^8, a nearly inexhaustible key number which is >> related to audio and video data simultaneously stored on a Google Database, >> which is then sent to the user. >> >> Thus with the 140 byte message, full audio and video can be retrieved. >> >> This is an outgrowth of the data compression program circa about 1992, when >> disks were much smaller than today. A very small compression program would >> infinitely compress data on a disk to allow storage of more data. It was >> only a 200 bytes or so in size (DOS days):-) and worked perfectly. Running >> it once resulted in lots of storage space. It took very little time. Of >> course rewriting the MBR (Master Boot Record) takes very little time. >> >> Recovering the "compressed" data was tough though. >> > > There were some later implementations of that idea. Here's a rather > efficient one: > > http://web.archive.org/web/20010405094403/http://lzip.sourceforge.net/ > > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
