Comments for Brian @ Wongside

Comment on About Me by Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:30:02 +0000

hi，
Brian.Do you still remember me?
After read this about you,I’m so happy.And I konw that you are so happeniess.
Best wishes to you.
Jessica

Comment on Proverbs 29 by Mahaley

Mahaley — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:50:08 +0000

Fell out of bed feeling down. This has bgirhetned my day!

Comment on Goodbye Mozy by John Tucker

John Tucker — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:40:00 +0000

You are not alone in your decision to move away from Mozy. I have many, many clients that I will now have to help them move to a new system. THe majority of them are home users that have between 30-100gb of data. Mostly photos, music and personal videos. I have found Backblaze to be a reliable system. I had a few clients using them already so I am going to be moving the rest over as their Mozy subscriptions come due.

Crashplan is ok, but more complicated. Not a problem for some people but Backblaze is certainly easier.

Comment on Kik Notifications by jon

jon — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:38:52 +0000

hey – I use textfree. I didn’t write it, but it works reasonably well.
Google voice works too.

Comment on USDA Prime at Costco by Brian @ Wongside » Costco: To buy or not to buy…

Brian @ Wongside » Costco: To buy or not to buy… — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:33:13 +0000

[...] my opinion, they left out the item at Costco which is near and dear to my heart: Prime Grade Beef. The price has gone up a few bucks since that article. It may be due to the proximity of the [...]

Comment on Costco: Love/Hate by Brian @ Wongside

Brian @ Wongside — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:31:56 +0000

[...] I thought this was an appropriate follow up article to my previous post from a few months ago, Costco:Love/Hate [...]

Comment on USDA Prime at Costco by Brian @ Wongside » Costco: Love/Hate

Brian @ Wongside » Costco: Love/Hate — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:10:27 +0000

[...] great products: inexpensive wetsuits, highly rated batteries, cheap gas, and let’s not forget great meat. They also have an unbeatable return policy. But on the other hand, I’m discovering that [...]

Comment on 1 TB of Space by Brian

Brian — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:12:25 +0000

I get that. But what you’re missing is what I wrote in the first paragraph. “I remember the days when a 256MB hard drive was 256 megabytes. They didn’t have any of this funky messing with bits and bytes, decimal and base 2. Oh well. Times have changed.”
Back in the day, they didn’t play these decimal/binary games. A megabyte was a megabyte. And a 256MB hard drive had 256MB, not 240MB or whatever it would be when you do the decimal/binary conversion.

Comment on 1 TB of Space by Particle

Particle — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:10:09 +0000

It’s an understandable misunderstanding on the part of the customer. In the same way that communications are always related in terms of BITS per second (small b in Mb/s or Mbps) while hard drive transfer rates are quoted in terms of BYTES (8 bits) per second (big B in MB/s or MBps), such is the life of storage. Storage media is almost always quoted using decimal definitions of mega or giga (1,000,000 or 1,000,000,000 respectively) while storage area in operating systems is quoted using the binary definitions of mega or giga instead (1024 ^ 2 or 1024 ^ 3 respectively).

That’s why you’ve noticed a larger discrepancy as your hard drives’ storage capacities grow. It isn’t that marketing is getting bolder or your file system is getting hungrier, it’s simply that the divide between definitions for x gigabytes (decimal) and x gigabytes (binary) is growing larger due to the larger multiplier of that unit. 1,000,000,000,000 bytes is a “1TB Hard Drive” even though it’s only 1000000000000 / (1024 ^ 3) binary-definition gigabytes (931.3).

Comment on iPad – Name Fail, Photoshop Win by mulaz

mulaz — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:50:09 +0000

It’s ok )