How many cats can fit in a 1 terabyte?
So how many cats can you fit inside one terabyte hard disk? We got one — Lemon the cat, was so eager to explore a new byte-size home. This is a 1 TB external HDD with USD2.0 connectivity from Western Digital, purchased over the weekend in KL.
Hmm.. if you are an mp3 collector, typically a decent size mp3 will be at about 3000 kilobytes or about 3,000,000 bytes per song (1 kb = 1024 bytes). So that means in 1 TB, you can fit at least 333,333 mp3 songs!! If you want proof, just divide 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (approx 1 TB) with 3,000,000 bytes per song. So, that is a huge collection of songs. Again, if one song is about 4 minutes; you can then listen all of them for at least 2.5 years continuously! Yeah.. Malaysia BOLEH!
So how many cats can fit in? One character is 1 byte, so CATS has 4 characters, or 4 bytes. So there will be 250, 000,000,000 cats can fit in inside 1 TB :-)
Western Digital says: This 1 TB can hold:
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Up to 285,000 digital photos |
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Up to 250,000 songs (MP3) |
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Up to 25,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality) |
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Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV) |
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Up to 440 hours of DVD quality video |
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Up to 120 hours of HD video |
One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
Learning iPhone
Sarah just got her iPhone over the weekend.
the white stuff
She’s still learning the many marvelous features — to explore more…
The damage: PC Fair Malaysia 2008
Aug 1- 3rd 2008: PC Fair 2008 in Kuala Lumpur; at KL Convention Centre. We went there on the 3rd at abt 3pm; and it was still crowded as expected. In fact, there were so many people, at one time I felt the air was running out (yes, serious as a heart attack!). And since the was so little room to move around — we quickly concluded that prices were just slightly cheaper than those listed at LYP on normal days.. and that we would just need to find the “designated exit” (the organizer has decided, yet again, to have limited designated exits, so that visitors would have to walk and go through all the halls before one could go out).
well.. that was the original idea.
By 8pm, we summed up the damages to be:
- 1 set of Altec Lansing VS computer speaker
- 5 sets of canon MP300 cartridges (yes, for 5 colors, thats 25 boxes!)
- Another 5 sets of Imprint cartridges (yes, for that MP300)
- 2 units of 19″ BenQ LCD monitors
- One computer headphone (with those big muffs)
- Canon EOS40D urrgg dropped from the list: we are sure we could get a better offer elsewhere
- Blistered fingers (from dragging all these from Hall 1 to ISETAN & car park! — that’s probably 2km)
Big complaint: get rid of the walk-flow system where you have to go through Hall 1 until Hall 5 to exit from that place. With all those stuffs; we could hardly walk in-gadget styles without stomping, stumbling, kicking and cursing.
Additional damages due to PC Fair 2008 fever:
- Intel P43 P5QL-E motherboard with Intel C2D
- GeForce 8600GT XFX Graphics Card (yes, with dual monitor support for the 2 benq lcds)
- LG DVD-RW driver
- Windows XP
thinking of eos40d
Current thought: EOS 40D.
Major Canon EOS 40D Features
- Increased efficiency 10.1-megapixel CMOS sensor with larger microlenses
- Large 3.0-inch LCD display with broadened color gamut
- Live View
- 6.5 frame-per-second continuous shooting capability (3fps also available)
- At 6.5fps, the buffer holds around 75 Large/Fine JPEGs or 17 RAW images
- At 3fps the buffer holds around 205 Large/Fine JPEGs or 20 RAW images
- New AF system with 9 cross type sensors
- Enhanced precision center AF zone for lenses f2.8 and faster.
- 14-bit A/D conversion with Digic III processor
- New quieter mirror/shutter assembly
- Highlight Tone Priority
- High-ISO Noise Reduction
- Integrated Self-Cleaning Sensor Unit
- Larger (0.95x) optical viewfinder magnification (30D is 0.90x)
- Interchangeable focusing screens
- Continuous display of ISO in viewfinder
- Auto ISO mode
- ISO 100-1600 plus “H” (3200) (same as 30D)
- Powered by BP-511A, BP-511, or BP-512 lithium-ion battery pack
- Stores images on CF cards
yes, we’ve made one!
Sunday 2:30pm — at cyberjaya, slightly drizzling outside; cool weather.
2:34pm: an idea to make our own lighbox popped out! So here we go.
- one Antonius frame ~ RM20, we bought this about 2 months back from IKEA Damansara (with the bag) Oppss.. that was Sarah’s laundry bag that became the victim. Only needed the frame, so the bag has to go.
- 4 pieces of white flourescent bulbs (we use 4 because each is only 8Watts, we need to have at least 15Watts on each sidelightings) ~ 4 x RM12/each = RM48.
- 4 pieces of white strawboard panel ~ RM6.50/each, from Tesco Puchong
- cable ties (you can buy one bag from Tesco outlets, maybe about RM0.10/pc but Tesco actually sells this in a big packet eventhough you’ll only be needing about 40 pieces to tie the strawboards on the antonius frame)
- Total cost ~ RM150.00
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The frame was just perfect at W38xD35, H67cm dimension |
8Watts white flourescent lightbulbs. The white background is the strawboard. |
You’ll just need to affix all the strawboards onto the 5 sides of the box frame: you’ll need cable tie for this. Fix two flourescent lights on each sides of the box. Once all is fixed, you can then use a white paper as the background. And here is the final product.
And muffin too.
Total time taken: slightly over 1 hour.
Results? You’ll be the judge.
LOOK AT SOME OF THE PHOTOS WE HAVE TAKEN FROM THIS SUPER ZENOED LIGHTBOX HOME STUDIO!
It’s Christmas time in the city
All i wanted for Christmas was a white front teeth! But I got a 6 channel R/C helicopter instead – an early xmas gift from sarah. This is certainly a superb one, complete with a belt-driven tail system.
This is amazing, looking at the specs alone:
Length:535mm
Height: 225mm
Main blade diameter: 600mm
Tail blade diameter: 130mm
Motor gear: 9T
Main drive gear: 140T
Drive gear rate: 9:140T
Weight:470g (with 1000mAh,11.1V);
Power system: 370 Motor (or Brushless Motor)
Control mode: CCPM SYSTEM (this means collective cyclic pitch mixing to provide more aerobatic actions)
Transmitter:6 CH with CCPM system
Servo: 8g
Gyro: ESky Gyro
Battery: Li-polymer
Battery Charge: 110V / 220V
Frequency: 35MHz / 72MHz
This was bought from Sungei Wang, KL!
..and the baby flies just like this
ps: this is not our video, it’s just to show the same model on its actual flight. We will try to post some soon.
Yes, it’s going to be a very merry xmas! Thank you baby.
