Microsoft

This topic annoys me quite a bit, but once again it came up. Someone on a linux mailing list I belong to sent out an email with some bashing comments about Microsoft. A couple other people followed up with jokes that probably weren’t jokes. One of them happens to use Hotmail, a product I actually do dislike quote a bit. After emailing him and saying that he shouldn’t make comments since he is a Hotmail user he made some comments about me needing to lighten up.
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This afternoon a friend mentioned how annoying the whole deal with drive makers going by 1000 vs 1024 for sizes. In a way it does suck that they are using a system that is different from how a file is sized, but at the same time you should just start remembering the formatted size of a drive. Here is the list I had on my personal blog from long ago, it details the a good number of drive sizes. Calculations were based on (Drive GB x 1000000000) / (1024×1024x1024). I do get sorta tired of the complaint only because if someone really has the time and energy to bitch about something so small they haven’t spent enough time dealing with standards, guidelines and compliance in the technology world to realize that this is just an inconvenience and not really a big enough one to complain about.

   4 =   3.73              120 =  111.76
 4.3 =   4.00              147 =  136.90
   9 =   8.38              150 =  139.70
  10 =   9.31              160 =  149.01
  18 =  16.76              180 =  167.64
  20 =  18.63              200 =  186.26
  30 =  27.94              250 =  232.83
  36 =  33.53              300 =  279.40
36.4 =  33.90              320 =  298.02
36.7 =  34.18              400 =  372.53
  40 =  37.25              500 =  465.66
  60 =  55.88              640 =  596.05
  74 =  68.92              750 =  698.49
  80 =  74.51             1000 =  931.32
 100 =  93.13             1500 = 1396.98