2008/4/30 Rory Browne <rbmlist at gmail.com>:
> 2008/4/30 Gareth Eason <bigbro at skynet.ie>:
> [snip]
>> > I believe ftp.heanet.ie has already pushed well over a Petabyte of Ubuntu
> > 8.04 goodness already. And that was before I upgraded my laptop last night.
>> Just to save anyone else googling....
> A petabyte (derived from the SI prefix peta- ) is a unit of
> information or computer storage equal to one quadrillion bytes, or
> 1000 terabytes. It is commonly abbreviated PB. When used with byte
> multiples, the prefix may indicate a power of either 1000 or 1024, so
> the exact number may be either:
>> * 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 1000 ^ 5, or 10 ^ 15, or
> * 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes — 1024 ^ 5, or 2 ^ 50.
>
All that and I forgot to send it to ILUG
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