Anything else

I try to categorize all posts. Yet some posts just don’t seem to fit any category. So here’s everything else:

3.19 – The Web Hosting Bandwidth Constant

January 15, 2012 in Anything else | No comments

In case you’ve ever wondered what the monthly traffic allowance in your web hosting plan means in bandwidth, here’s an easy-to-remember number:

3.19 (month kbit) / (sec GB) – I shall call this the Brian Adkins number

Under the assumption that traffic from a web server only flows in one direction it means that for every GB (gigabyte) of monthly traffic included in your plan you could consume 3.19 kbit/s constantly. Or for every TB (terabyte) of traffic allowed per month you can transmit data at a constant rate of 3.19 Mbit/s.

I hope he takes this down to the Cafe: 1987 Compaq Portable III (286 based) with Wireless and Lynx part one, and here’s part two (seen it on Hack a Day)

June 19, 2011 | No comments

Syntax Highlighting on this blog is brought to you by http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter. – I’m using the “old” 1.5.1 version on purpose: it allows you to copy the code to your clipboard without using the flash code… unlike the new version where you end up selecting the line numbers as well. Update: I’ve shifted to the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved WordPress plugin by Viper007Bond.

August 6, 2009 | No comments

Hello World

November 15, 2007 in Anything else | No comments

So here’s a new blog. – I used to have a FileMaker blog in German. It never really got any traffic and so I stopped posting in March 2005. But I felt confident that the idea to have a FileMaker blog wasn’t bad after all. I just hadn’t chosen the right time. Let’s see if the time is right now…