August 2007
Monthly Archive
How big is your hard-drive?
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 28 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Bzzzt - wrong!, Computers
If you feel inadequate about your hard drive size, a well-known Swiss (or German, for the pedants among us) electronics supermarket sells Terrabyte (sic) sized harddrives. Now… Terra (with two “r”s) usually refers to earth. So… is that a harddrive the size of the whole planet? Would be useful for Marvin the paranoid Android: “Here I am, harddrive the size of a planet…”
Of course, I couldn’t leave this post without looking up where the prefix “tera” as in 1012 (or in this case 240) actually comes from. Here’s what the second oracle told me:
Confirmed in 1960, it comes from the Greek τερασ, meaning monster.*I therefore suggest we call it a Monsterbyte from now on!
A plaque upon thee!
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 16 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Bzzzt - wrong!
What, no “Plaguettes”? Sounds… interesting. Cheerleaders for the Black Death or cholera, maybe? Or simply a French wine…
Anyway, if you’re looking for a plague, they’re the guys to go to.
Disclaimer: I have no idea about any products of any company mentioned in this post, not even the misspelled ones. So there. But Ms. Magenta’s Cholera looks lovely!
Is that the bus to RTXY_DG%;)FCKNGC?
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 15 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Bzzzt - wrong!, Travels, Huh?
Good thing I was flying out of Dublin Airport on August 3rd… taking the bus would have been slightly confusing. However, I find it hard to believe that the letters “FCKNG” should appear anywhere randomly, especially preceded by a smilie ;). Who knows… some bored sign technician, maybe?
…in with the new
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 13 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Meta
Continuing from my last post: If you see this one, you’re on the right server.
Now back to our regular programme…
Out with the old…
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 13 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Meta
I have shuffled a few things around on my various servers. This page has moved up one machine (in the shelf, that is) to http://blog.adebaumann.com instead of http://biel.adebaumann.com/wordpress. If you’re thinking “What’s changed then?”… the whole site lives under that name now, not just the front page. Might I suggest you check out your atom-feeds as well? If this is the last post you see, you’re on the old server and should change accordingly.
For arbitrary values of 7
Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 08 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Bzzzt - wrong!
I am constantly amazed at what wonders the Irish can do when they set their minds to it. Especially if they assault me with what must be higher dimensional mathematics at the breakfast table. Now… if they could pull the same trick off with Guinness? Please?
Alternatively, I would recommend they take a short course in applied mathematics.