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…
Dim Sum breakfast, Puchong
Dim sum!
Well, it’s not really a breakfast but a late breakfast cum lunch at 1pm.
After picking up Sarah’s CRV from Honda Service Station (she finally got the scratched on the fender repainted), we went to Yuen Garden Dim Sum House, at Bandar Puchong Jaya.
Spaghetti Bosou Bolognese
This weekend is my last day in Doha… and this weekend is spent just to have a delicious spaghetti, with bosou. yes!! Bosou in middle east, with spaghetti!
Ingredients
1 packet of spaghetti bolognese (boiled with salt to taste)
500 gm minced meat
1 can mushroom with black pepper
ample fish bosou (fried)
salt to taste
Blended Ingredients
2 pcs red onions
3 small onions
7 pcs of dried chilli
Method (For Sauce)
- Fry the minced meat for 5 minutes until tender, and put aside
- Fry blended ingredients until you can smell the aroma
- Add in the mushrooms
- Finally, add in the minced meat and let is boil for a short while. This can then be poured onto the spaghetti.
- Pour in the fried fish bosou amounts to your liking
- serve while hot
The final result?
Live from Olympic Stadium, Beijing2008!
Yes — this is a glimpse of the Olympic atmosphere inside the “Birds Nest” — from our Nokia N95, posted live directly to mobilephotos from the stadium!
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
All aboard Eastern & Oriental Express
We have just added this to our travel calendar .. well, at least a plan to do so. The good thing is that this time, it will not involve flying. In fact, we will be on land all the time.
Yes — this is a travel plan to be on board of the The Eastern & Oriental Express that carries passengers in luxury between Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.
We plan to travel from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok through the dense rainforests and towering mountains past golden temples, rubber plantations and remote towns and villages.
The Eastern & Oriental Express travel the whole length from Singapore trhough KL and Butterworth to Bangkok in a distance of about 2000 km. The train was built in Japan in 1972 and was first used as the Silver Star train in New Zealand. We were told that on board the Eastern & Oriental Express, the atmosphere harks back to a ‘Colonial’ age of rattan chairs on the verandah, linen suits and tea dances; and the journey also offers the highest quality of foods (and beauty spas, too)!
Of course, with at least USD2000 per person for this Kuala Lumpur – Bangkok journey: this will probably be just a plan, until we have that amount to spare; or until someone is kind enough to sponsor our travel on this luxurious train. Aim to do this in 2010? Possibly…
Celebrating our 2nd Anniversary
July 1st 2008. Yes, it has been 2 years already since our wedding vows — time really flies when you are having fun.
It's Our 2nd Anniversary
Got some flowers and we stayed at home, just the two of us. All things are continuing to be absolutely great.
We managed to take some photos of our 2nd anniversary flowers: HERE
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
Muffin moved on..
Daisy for Muffin
We never thought that we would be very sad about losing a cat forever.
Muffin came to us in October 2007 from Ampang SPCA: as a birthday gift for sarah from jo, odok & moneng. Muffin was then a young feline, quite frailed and was abandoned. She was timid and very quiet in the first few weeks… and she grew so fast, becoming a fantastic cat and a part of the house member.
Some people may say that a cat is just a pet — but Muffin was a part of our lives. We really never thought that we would be so sad when losing her. We gave her care and lots of food; and she quickly became the master of the house. She was once lost for one month and we managed to find her in time for xmas. She never got lost again, until this morning.
Just before lunch, Muffin was outside among the plants when she was attacked by three stray dogs: we were too late to come to her rescue, and she died on the way to the vet in our car.
We would like to think that Muffin has had a colorful life, and unfortunately — she is now gone and we lost her forever.
For a brief moment, Muffin was in our lives, we loved her and she has now moved on.
Rest in peace muffin.
