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Archive for February 2008
The Sleep Trifecta
February 27, 2008 by ignatiof.
This showed up as my current friend updates on my Facebook home today:
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Do You Remember?
February 26, 2008 by ignatiof.
According to Wikipedia, the Commodore 64 sold 30 million units during its lifetime. Each of those units came with 64 kilobytes of RAM. Today’s home-use machines have 1-4 gigabytes of RAM.
64-kB = 65536 bytes
1-GB = 1073741824 bytes
That’s a ratio of 16,384 times. For 4-GB it goes up to 65536. In other words a machine with 4 gigabytes of RAM has the equivalent RAM of 65,536 Commodore 64s.
All the C64s in the world had a total amount of RAM equal to 30,000,000 times 65536, which is: 1966080000000 bytes, or about 1.8 terabytes. Some consumer hard drives are at the 1-TB mark now - the same amount of storage as the RAM in about 15 million C64s. I can see the day coming when my personal laptop will have more memory than the total from all the C64s ever made.
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The Switch
February 17, 2008 by ignatiof.
I’ve done it. After 14 years of using Windows, I have switched to an alternative. I’m now running Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on my main computer. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, so it wasn’t as drastic a change as it could have been. (I’m still running Windows XP on an older machine for games.)
Of things that matter to me, there are only a handful of things better about Ubuntu than Windows:
- It’s free.
- It’s open source, so I can modify it. (I probably won’t.)
- Add/Remove Applications is very slick and Windows really has no equivalent.
Beyond that, everything else is pretty minor. There’s a few oddities here and there, but the same could be said about Vista. As far as what I can do with it, there’s not much difference.
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Eating Right!
February 15, 2008 by ignatiof.
You certainly will, if eating better means cakes and pies.
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Pricier Fuel?
February 15, 2008 by ignatiof.
Do you get this ad? I don’t. Less pump per nickel. So for the same 5 cents, you get less gas? How does that work exactly?
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