[LINK] lies, damn lies, and 31,000 pages

[Roger Clarke]

At 9:48 +1000 12/7/07, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>I think a bare bones installation of XP or Vista is over 100,000 files.

I seem to have 442,978 files on my Mac's main drive right now.  And 
given that I run father-son backups on a separate device on the 
network, I guess they could claim 1.5 million files.

So if I get taken in for questioning, they can ask (or should that be 
'demand') 6 months, right?

And as for the Magistrate's behaviour ...  ('Oh, challenge my 
independence, would you?  Well I'll need 48 hours to consider your 
submission;  and your client can sweat it out, and you can't do a 
thing about it.  Serves you right for being impertinent'.)


I did like watching Ruddock squir around his 13,000 'pages' and large 
numbers of 'gigabytes - is that what they call them?'.  He almost 
looked human.

My rule of thumb on such things is that 'a page' averages about 
3-4KB.  (And I used to use Bible = 5MB as a guide for people who 
wanted to understand what the numbers meant.  *Some* people seemed to 
know how big a Bible is).  So 13,000 'pages' would be 40-50MB, or 
0.04-0.05GB.

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