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January 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:31 AM

One year and counting...

Hey, I just noticed that last week was exactly 12 months since I joined Microsoft. Time really does fly when having fun!

Posted by Addys | 3 Comments

Filed under: Personal

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:07 PM

What does a petabyte of data look like?

Today I saw my first petabyte system. A SAN composed of multiple cabinets, each one with 225 disks of 360GB each. Wow. Even more impressive was the size of it all - it could easily fit into the kitchen of my tiny Manhattan apartment. Any bets how long

Posted by Addys | 5 Comments

Filed under: Tech Related

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:31 AM

FireFox ate my cat!

Actually, it was my Linksys wireless router. And maybe "ate" isn't the most accurate description of what happened. But it was a pretty weird coincidence that my router keeled over and died (complete with nasty burnt plastic smell) just as I opened FireFox