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< wonders what the current mindset is about SSD stability. When they were relatively new a few years ago, there were all these doomsayers (as always) spelling their downfall as they would suffer from internal degredation with every read or write operation to the point where a certain number of read/writes would make the device die on you and also make it so that it would be physically implossible to recover the data. < doubts that's actually the case, but < would like some security in that just in case.

Master wrote:< isn't fond of the whole Kilo/Mega/Giga vs Kibbii/Mebi/Gibi thing. 1024, not 1000!

So should we all be calling it a 140 Gibibyte drive? I'm a tad confused!

From what < has learnt, it's the whole binary vs denary system thing. Manufacturers tend to use 1000 (so, 1000MB is 1GB), while Windows (not sure about other OSes) uses 1024 (so, 1024MB is 1GB, not 1000). What this means, is for instance, an 8 GB Flash drive doesn't have 8 GB when plugged in, instead you get about 7.5 GB.

From what < has read, the kilo, mega and so on prefixes are for Denary (1000), while these Mebi, Gibi, Kibi are for binary (1024).

< is posting this from Ubuntu 14.04

Hmm, < once had a VM on <'s old laptop with Ubuntu, perhaps < ought to experiment again with it sometime. Though not at present, < has other things to tend to.

< wonders what is ^ using for VMs.
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This is <'s current Ubuntu setup:

Master wrote:What this means, is for instance, an 8 GB Flash drive doesn't have 8 GB when plugged in, instead you get about 7.5 GB.

Oh, huh. That's sad. < was kind of hoping they'd accidentally done it the other way around.

Anyway, the 1000-or-1024 thing isn't a Windows-exclusive deal, it's computer-based. Computers work in powers of two. 1000 is not a power of 2, but 1024 is.

< wants to make Halloween art.

< totally forgot about Halloween :O

< Wants to make Halloween art too. < Has been trying to stir up some interest in another Halloween contest for this year.

< remembers ^'s arts for last years' halloween. < found them very intriguing, yet creepy and poor everyone else besides Rayman.

< Had that image secretly linked to in <'s signature for a while. Now the secret link leads to something equally horrifying!
< Loved seeing all the deranged Rayman drawings in the contest last year.

AAaarrrgh, < eye's burn!

Now, < wishes, < never found the link...

< really hopes if this year's Halloween Art contest won't be only limited to Rayman.
< would love to do something else.

< Wouldn't mind if it wasn't limited to Rayman, though < hopes that whatever the theme is < can use <'s Rayman-related ideas for it.

< assures ^ that using Rayman in non-Rayman related contests is still always welcome.

<Is enjoying hearing the rain outside.
< Is about to go through all the adverts of the weight lifting gloves < saved last night & make a decision

< is dumping <'s NAND inside <'s vWii in <'s Wii U.
< wants to get Rayman 3 running on <'s Wii U, so < will arichive nice upscaled 1080p picture over HDMI.

< Wants to remake an old Rayman-related video < made back on the night of <'s 15'th (I think) birthday.
< Also might hang out in the IRC.
< Has joked about how < doesn't like how Rayman 3 was marketed as edgy but < should play Rayman 3 some time. To be honest, there's still a lot < doesn't really know about the Rayman story and most of that is from Rayman 3.

Back to school tomorrow for <. Also <'s birthday! (Technically today since it's just past 12AM here, but whatever) Woohoo or something.

< congratulates ^! <'s friend Marklar's birthday is tomorrow, what a coincidence!