24028810 comment Comment try gzip (Score 1) 1 by nn4l on Sunday September 18, 2011 @01:45PM (#37434762) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Backup compression and ZFS bzip2 is slow, try gzip --fast .
2212847 comment Comment Re:Metric Metric Metric (Score 2, Informative) 505 by nn4l on Thursday September 04, 2003 @05:04AM (#6866896) Attached to: How Much Does A Cloud Weigh? Never underestimate the size of one square meter. One square meter has 10.000 square cm (100 cm * 100 cm). Total area is 500 * 10.000 = 5.000.000 cm^2 Mass is 3 * 5.000.000 = 15.000.000 g, or 15.000 kg, or 15 (metric) tons. About 2.5 elephants.