[LUNI] File duplicate finder contest!

[Gene Jannece]

I just started reading this today figured with a few people interested 
it would make an amusing contest.

Prizes are as follows: free books and $25 gift card!

Learn how to Buy and Sell on Ebay! $5
The book was really $5 bucks but I found it on ebay for $4 with $3 
shipping! I almost feel bad for the guy.

O'Reilly Java Servlet Programming $36.95
The book is "Gently Used", in the way that Christina Aquilera looks 
"gently used" in her Dirty Video
Click the not real safe for work youtube link for example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU0X8Mr20-U
You'll also feel "Gently Used" after watching.

The official Honeymooners Treasury (book on the TV show the 
honeymooners) $13.95
Nothing Funny about this book at all. Nothing.

How to succeed with Women $15.00
With 8 keys to successful flirting
7 habits of highly effective seducers
It helped me, and it can help you! (It really didn't but funny)

Twenty Questions: An introduction to Philosophy!
classics like "is the me I am, the me that's thinking of me right now?
A huge page turner.

O'reailly's Sendmail 2nd edition!
God I hate Sendmail.

AND $25 gift card at whatever store you pick!


The rules:

Your entry with be graded on the following:
1) time it takes to run through
2) how many false positives, if the files are really a duplicate in any way.
3) if it runs out of memory
4) All entries must be in by Jan 2nd, 2007

The files include anything from 50meg text files, unsorted mp3 
collections, full disc copies of entire DVD box sets, entire system 
backups (both windows and linux OS)
collections of pictures featuring "artistic" nudes, etc.

some issues to think about:

1) not all the drives are on in one computer, 1 x 500 gig over USB, 1 x 
400gig ATA133 drive, 2 x 250gig in a windows box next to it over gige 
network.
All are mounted under /mnt/

2)  I'm interested it deleting the finding and deleting the duplicates, 
I've tried fdupes, some shell scripts I've found and even a few windows 
programs.
Nothing has been 100% with false positives. in one form or another it 
miss files, match files wrongly or just crash due to lack of ram.
(windows machine has 2Gig, linux box has 2gigs)

3) the total disk usage total is (using du -c on /mnt) is 1260985808. 
That's 1.1T total with du -c -h

4)  The system CPU is:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 1997.304
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 3996.78
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

5) your entry CAN NOT delete anything! it must dump the results into a 
text file for review.

Please email me your entry off list and I'll post the results as soon as 
I can

Good Luck!


Gene = SyL