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1971: Dear user, You cannot have more than 10,000 records. If we increased the maximum in the data base schema, we'd have to modify half of our software. Sorr
by edw519 16y ago
1971: Dear user, You cannot have more than 10,000 records. If we increased the maximum in the data base schema, we'd have to modify half of our software. Sorry, IT.
1981: Dear user, You cannot have more than 10,000 records. Our software vendor set this limit and we don't have the source code. Sorry, IT.
1991: Dear user, You cannot have more than 10,000 records. We don't have enough room in our budget for more hard disk. Sorry, IT.
2001: Dear user, You cannot have more than 10,000 records. Our network traffic is so high that we had to set arbitrary limits. Sorry, IT.
2011: Dear user, You cannot have more than 10,000 records. The internet is full. Sorry, Google.
[EDIT: Replaced "contacts" with "records" 5 times. The general case causes less confusion. Thank you, juiceandjuice.]
- juiceandjuice 16y agoBefore 1991, it would have probably been "A Rolodex can only hold 10,000 cards" for most people. The solution would be to buy another Rolodex.
- valjavec 16y agoTrue, but hackers are smart people and don't like dumb rules. In real physical rolodex you can understand the limit, because it really exists. In Gmail it's hardcoded "OK <= 10000" and that's hard to understand, specially when there's upgrade for 20,000 contacts - so 10,000 is just an artificial dumb rule.
- mvalle 16y agoI fear that 1981 still applies today, and is indeed the case with Google.
- Semiapies 16y agoI bet Google actually has access to its own code for Apps contacts.
- Florin_Andrei 16y agoHaving access to the code, and having the willingness to modify it, are different things.
- Semiapies 16y agoAnd yet both are different from "we don't have the source code", now aren't they?
- Jach 16y agoYou don't need the source! Just find where 10,000 limit is in the binary and change it to some other larger number. Assuming it's a normal 4-byte signed integer, it can go a lot higher..
- steve-howard 16y agoAaah, but it's in "the cloud," and the user of the software can't change even the binaries.