Afrihost originally entered the market aggressively, pricing themselves at R55 per GB of data transferred, where competing ISPs were still priced at South African rand per GB and higher.
Available features on the second-gen CTS included a Bose 5.1 surround sound system, GM's Stabilitrak ESC system, a tire pressure monitoring system, a navigation system with real-time traffic and weather data, an integrated 40 GB hard drive for music storage, swiveling headlights, and remote starting.
Its primary feature is the ability to handle large document collections (100 GB and more).
The application server was developed using Microsoft's (D)COM technology and uses an Informix 9.4x database running on a Solaris machine containing 80 CPUs and a 300 GB Cache-RAM.
Of course, with the DivX encoded file reaching almost 1 gigabyte in size, it may not be practical for everyone to download it.
Albert Fert, a French physicist who enabled a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.
In October 2004 Netatalk 2.0 was released, which brought major improvements, including: support for Apple Filing Protocol version 3.1 (providing long UTF-8 filenames, file sizes > 2 gigabytes, full Mac OS X compatibility), CUPS integration, Kerberos V support allowing true "single sign-on", reliable and persistent storage of file and directory IDs and countless bug fixes compared to previous versions.
HDD has been increased to 6 GB, comes with updated dictionary, text to speech software from Nuance Communications and TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) test.