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Help Us with a Data Storage Problem

April 1, 2012 · by Anna Rohleder

All of you Opera Mini and Opera Turbo fans out there know that one of the best features of Opera is data savings. The way we make Opera load web pages so fast is by compressing the actual data contained in a web page by up to 90%.

We introduced the data compression technology to our browsers back in 2006, and since then we've shaved off billions and billions of unnecessary data bytes. This surplus data, of course, has to be stored somewhere. The potentiokinetic data is quickly flooding our data centers. Potentiokinetic data comes from a corollary to the first law of thermodynamics: no information bits can be created or deleted, just transferred to another storage solution.

Servers Our servers are getting full these days. Can you help us store some of the data?

First we tried to solve this problem ourselves. We tried offloading the excess data onto secondary storage materials, using everything from external hard disks to CD-ROMs. But this solution just created problems of its own. As you can see, all of our workstations here in Oslo have become extremely cluttered as a result.

Get involved!

This is becoming such a problem that we have decided to turn to you for help. Today we are issuing a public appeal for all of you in the Opera community to take some of the data load off our hands. You can sign up here to receive a small portion of this data - which has been encrypted - to store locally, on your computer or some other device. Remember, every little bit - and byte - helps!

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  • JoelSunday, April 1, 2012 5:36:24 AM

    :rip:...Opera

    :lol:

  • GeekKSunday, April 1, 2012 5:38:31 AM

    I'll help and keep it cool & dry. :bigsmile:

  • AndresSunday, April 1, 2012 5:39:04 AM

    Happy April fools day :O

  • Abubakar Kalajanga JalingoSunday, April 1, 2012 5:40:40 AM

    Yes! We are ready to help.

  • Charles SchlossSunday, April 1, 2012 5:41:13 AM

    1 or 0

  • masterofoperaSunday, April 1, 2012 5:42:19 AM

    WARNING:

    April 1 has been freed from prison

    The felony is extremely dangerous

    :bigsmile:

    Edit:

    http://files.myopera.com/AnnaMetro/blog/piledup%20data_resized.jpg

    shows why HardDisks are called MassSorage
    :bigsmile:

  • Timothy K MbaeSunday, April 1, 2012 5:44:12 AM

    :-d...... April fools day!!

  • Arshad NawazSunday, April 1, 2012 5:49:26 AM

    I am always ready to help!
    Opera is a good browser, and will a good browser in future!

  • AndresSunday, April 1, 2012 5:49:33 AM

    LOL I received my part of data via e-mail :p:

  • Kenan1992Sunday, April 1, 2012 5:49:45 AM

    Hhhhhhhhh.. Even if it was a nice joke, but I would still have helped !

  • Knyika2Sunday, April 1, 2012 5:56:43 AM

    Harddisks cn neva b full,

  • TamilSunday, April 1, 2012 5:56:44 AM

  • PayaSunday, April 1, 2012 5:58:31 AM

    : no information bits can be created or deleted, just transferred to another storage solution

    Looking at my hard drive, I must say: So true! :-D

  • slackwrdaveSunday, April 1, 2012 5:59:51 AM

    Fill a barge with that data, float it out onto the ocean, sink it.

  • cahyo gumilangSunday, April 1, 2012 6:02:59 AM

    Delete all unnecessary data :down:

  • CarlosprinceSunday, April 1, 2012 6:07:52 AM

    Ok I'll also offer help,why not

  • AercySunday, April 1, 2012 6:12:07 AM

    :lol:

  • Ilja NieuwlandSunday, April 1, 2012 6:12:55 AM

    Nice one! Totally fell for it until I saw the comments. But then, I've only been awake for five minutes...

  • Paavo RissanenSunday, April 1, 2012 6:18:07 AM

    I did my part an received some data. It look like a part of some porn site to me...
    :left: :right:

    :lol:

  • logytechSunday, April 1, 2012 6:20:54 AM

    in practically the University Stanford already do sort of this. by send a pieces of synthesis (POS) to any volunteer to crunchy the data using own GPU. and that data sent backs to what it is belong.:bigsmile:

    :jester: :lol:

    btw i already sign up the mail....

  • Muneer Hassan AbdullaSunday, April 1, 2012 6:23:28 AM

    :bigsmile:

  • Barclay HygaardSunday, April 1, 2012 6:24:46 AM

    Working hard to decode the secret message :3
    Step 1 Binary to ASCII
    Step 2 ???

  • Zaffar AmjadSunday, April 1, 2012 6:31:17 AM

    DAMN!!! Why can't I remember "what day is it today".
    You people got me.:knockout:

  • Lewis EkwegbaliSunday, April 1, 2012 6:45:45 AM

    Nice one Opera, but we're smarter than you think :p: :doh:

  • steffie11Sunday, April 1, 2012 6:49:45 AM

    OMGGG. I just regret that I've been brought so much burden on Opera's storage and signed up to help immediately..

    April FOOL TvT

  • Marian CimbruSunday, April 1, 2012 6:51:32 AM

    Ha, ha! 01001101000101011... Nice joke!!

  • Mimi's Mum (MM)Sunday, April 1, 2012 7:03:54 AM

    This surplus data, of course, has to be stored somewhere. The potentiokinetic data is quickly flooding our data centers

    Just send them all over to your Iceland data centre and get the staff there to pour them down into the cracks of Eyjafjallajökull. :bigsmile:


  • Amani KajubaSunday, April 1, 2012 7:09:13 AM

    I believ this is a joke. So if the problem survive april then i will hellp.

  • iQbal kHanSunday, April 1, 2012 7:27:05 AM

    hahahah :bigsmile:

  • JorgeSunday, April 1, 2012 7:48:00 AM

    rly nice exercise :smile:

  • Gilbert Roland BentilSunday, April 1, 2012 7:59:30 AM

    April fool.how can opera's server get full whiles technology is still young.

  • Linh AlphaSunday, April 1, 2012 8:25:44 AM

    Oh my God is this your joke xD However I'll help :love:

  • ZimakSunday, April 1, 2012 8:29:40 AM



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  • Sami SerolaSunday, April 1, 2012 8:36:01 AM

    Maybe MyOpera users could borrow some of their MyOpera blog space and Opera Email server space back to Opera Software :bigsmile:

  • Anton DiazSunday, April 1, 2012 9:03:11 AM

    You just need to load data back to the Internets.

  • XombieSunday, April 1, 2012 9:28:22 AM

    :lol: :bigsmile:

  • Andylee SatoSunday, April 1, 2012 9:29:23 AM

    LOL, I input my address :smile:

  • maciej strzępaSunday, April 1, 2012 9:38:16 AM

    :jester: proposed storage of canned ...and send to my email address :lol: (Canned beer of course :wink: )
    p.

  • Anna RohlederSunday, April 1, 2012 9:40:34 AM

    Originally posted by AngelOfMercy:

    Working hard to decode the secret message :3
    Step 1 Binary to ASCII
    Step 2 ???


    I can't tell you how to do it, but if you manage to do it, your efforts will be *rewarded*...

  • HannuSunday, April 1, 2012 9:43:36 AM

    lol :jester:

  • Strange EmotionsSunday, April 1, 2012 9:43:45 AM

    ahaha, nice one :bigsmile:

  • theblackgoldSunday, April 1, 2012 9:47:43 AM

    Today is april fool. But maybe its ture.

  • Shane BundySunday, April 1, 2012 9:55:28 AM

    Everyone knows that Opera doesn't store the data. They compress it and puts the rest into Chuck Norris's beard.
    :jester: Happy April Fools' Day! :jester:

  • Uncle MickSunday, April 1, 2012 10:27:39 AM

    I'll help, send me some credit card, banking, and login details.

    I promise it will be safe. :devil: :lol:

  • Samuel PetatSunday, April 1, 2012 10:40:13 AM

    Will put everything on my CPC464 tapes, can store a lot !

  • LuxorSunday, April 1, 2012 10:40:38 AM


  • Adonis @ my.opera /friendspartyworldSunday, April 1, 2012 10:42:14 AM

    Sadly enough, it is partly true. Because opera mini is slowing down. Its a joke ofcourse (tagged what day is it today) But do you remember last years joke? That's no joke anymore: no more member of the week. :sad: I would rather have been fooled about a bluetooth edition of opera mini. To use other one s data connection? Or just to communicate with other opera mini users in the neighbourhood. Was looking for a joke, so its ok but I would want I *could* find the data I found/sent to a deleted account.

  • Joonas LehtolahtiSunday, April 1, 2012 11:07:35 AM

    I think I found a good place for Opera to store all this extra data they have difficulty of getting rid of. A cloud storage service with currently 16740559639453422278165817260742187500 terabytes of free space: http://my.opera.com/godjonez/blog/2012/04/01/capacity-of-dev-null

  • Thu WinSunday, April 1, 2012 11:47:43 AM

    April fool's day? Also isn't every little helps Tesco's slogan?

  • PeterSunday, April 1, 2012 12:04:33 PM

    I'll help, just send me my data because I just finished digging a hole in my garden. Worms just love data. :chef:

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DateApril 1, 2012
AuthorAnna Rohleder
Tagscommunity appeal, potentio-kinetic data, data compression, what day is it today
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