Hard drive space actually comes in 1024 byte “blocksâ€, and the correct prefixes are ones like kibi-, mebi- and giba- (versus kilo-, mega-, and giga-, all of which are units of a 1000). So a GiB is simply the accurate and slightly larger cousin of the Gigabyte (1 Gibibyte = 1.073741824 Gigabytes).
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As Fall arrives, check out Spring!
Find out what it takes to migrate Struts applications to Spring MVC.
Spring MVC has gained steady adoption and Java developer attention. The highly popular Spring framework (with Spring MVC as its core component) is nicely designed, productive, and innovative, so many Struts users undoubtedly will investigate Spring MVC as a replacement framework for Struts.
Slide Rule in Javascript
This is a wonderful demonstration of a working slide rule. Really brings back high school memories. I was just old enough to be on that technology overlap. I used my father’s K & E for high school physics and got quite fast with it. Here are a couple more slide rule links: