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Comment Re:it's not really just storage (Score 1) 168

by kimhanse on Sunday November 18, 2012 @09:56AM (#42018583) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Data Storage Highway Robbery?

Taken all together this means that the "1GB" of data allowance is really 250,000+ records, depending on how much is chatter vs. actual records and not anything related to disk space. It's just easier to explain it as 1GB to a management person rather then as a complex relationship between records, transactions and indexes.

I think this story and all the noise about $/GB shows that a price per record would have been a better solution.

Comment Wrong link in summary (Score 5, Informative) 205

by kimhanse on Monday February 27, 2012 @11:32AM (#39172833) Attached to: Lawyers For Mining Companies Threaten Scientific Journals

This is the right link: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/DEMS documents.pdf

Comment Re:They failed because... (Score 1) 218

by kimhanse on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @10:49AM (#38148196) Attached to: Google To Shutter Knol, Wave, Gears

Gears made some people use gmail that otherwise wouldn't. Email with ads made money.

Comment Re:Let's hope for another radical GUI change! (Score 1) 281

by kimhanse on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @12:40PM (#36167556) Attached to: 9 Features We May See In Ubuntu 11.10

That could be a problem with an overzealous firewall/IDS, see http://schplurtz.free.fr/wiki/envrac/reseau-bizbiz-ssh

Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release 984

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 27, 2010 @11:55AM from the stay-above-the-belt dept.

CyberDragon777 writes "Ubuntu's future 10.10 operating system is going to make a small, but contentious change to how file sizes are represented. Like most other operating systems using binary prefixes, Ubuntu currently represents 1 kB (kilobyte) as 1024 bytes (base-2). But starting with 10.10, a switch to SI prefixes (base-10) will denote 1 kB as 1000 bytes, 1 MB as 1000 kB, 1 GB as 1000 MB, and so on."

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