The unix gigasecond approaches

[yesthattom]

The unix gigasecond approaches. 8:37am Saturday. Don't miss it!

Personally, i'm 99% sure i'll be asleep.

http://www.bell-labs.com/~cbm/unixgig/

Comments

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I like the suggestion about cutting things in half. I'm not sure how old things are, but my basement could be a bloodbath of decrepit hardware...

Which gigasecond

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Is that gigasecond in powers of 10 or powers of 2...

Powers of 2, naturally :-)

% perl -e 'print scalar localtime(2**30)'
Sat Jan 10 08:37:04 2004

(would that be gibisecond in that case? http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html )