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# i thought it was a teminator robot too :)
anyone want to know why when you install a 120gb hard drive, you only get 111gb? i've just done a write up.
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aye
(, Fri 16 May 2003, 14:39, archived)
# i'ld like to know that
I was quite cheesed off about that 'un.
(, Fri 16 May 2003, 14:40, archived)
# probably
because when they quote hard drive sizes they take 1gb to equal 1000000000 bytes instead of 1073741824 bytes

(edit) oops, i can't read again. i thought you were asking us not telling us :)
(, Fri 16 May 2003, 14:41, archived)
# this is closer to the truth than you may realise
;)
(, Fri 16 May 2003, 14:43, archived)
# yeah yeah
i was a spoon before the matrix made them fashionable i'll have yer know :)
(, Fri 16 May 2003, 14:44, archived)