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Once a cheater, always a cheater: Introducing "Our Favorite Cheat Sheets" |
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Featured topic from SearchNetworking: Designing the WAN |
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Reader Feedback: Is a kibibyte 1,024 bytes or just one little bite of a famous dog food? |
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Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater |
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| by Margaret Rouse, Assistant Site Editor
You've heard the saying, once a cheater, always a cheater? For some things, it's true. There are just some things I have no interest in learning how to do. As I'm listening to my husband patiently explain for the fourteenth time how to set the timer on the VCR, my eyes begin to glaze over. His voice becomes a distant buzz and I wonder if this is what the dog feels like when we talk to him.
I nod my head and pretend to listen because I am polite - but I know that as soon as he leaves the room, I'm going to have to go look it up on the cheat sheet. Somewhere along the way I've decided that the information isn't important enough for me to make the effort to internalize it and own it. It doesn't matter. I know it's written down and I can go look it up.
Cheat sheets come in handy at the most unexpected times. Last night our doorbell rang. It was our neighbor, Bill. Bill's a very successful insurance executive. He's a fountain of knowledge when it comes to Microsoft Excel. If you have a question about spreadsheets, Bill's the guy to ask. Last night he was preparing a summary for something at work. He was using Microsoft Word and was trying to use the equation editor. "How do I insert an equation into this document? That darn (ok he didn't say "darn") Office Assistant is no help at all!"
When you run into a problem like that, how do you quickly find a solution? My husband's answer is always the same. "Get a Mac." I prefer to take the high road. I said "Here, Bill, you can borrow my cheat sheet."
Throughout the years, we at whatis.com have gathered cheat sheets for keyboard shortcuts, ASCII symbols, DOS commands (yes, we're that old), HTML, using equations in Word, and more. That's why we're proud to announce our newest Fast Reference: Our Favorite Cheat Sheets. (Ta daaa!)
This week we're asking you to take a minute and drop us a note and tell us what cheet sheets you rely on and simply can't live without.
Even better, we invite you to contribute YOUR favorite cheat sheet to our Fast Reference. Send us a digital copy of your favorite cheat sheet or send us the URL of your favorite cheat sheet Web page and we'll add your name as a contributor to our latest Fast Reference.
LEARN MORE:
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci826102,00.html
Sneak Preview: Our Favorite Cheat Sheets
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci826135,00.html |
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Featured Site: SearchNetworking |
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Designing the WAN
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What readers think of kibi and mebi |
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| by Lowell Thing, Site Editor
Last week, we invited you to comment on the IEC standard prefixes such as "kibi" (rather than "kilo") for a multiple of 1,024 so that "kibibyte" (instead of "kilobyte") could be used to clearly show that one meant 1,024 bytes, not 1,000 bytes. "Kilobit" would then clearly mean 1,000 bits and not ambiguously suggest perhaps 1,024 bits. While the new prefixes have yet to catch on, it may be early yet (there is the entire future awaiting us) and we asked you whether you would look forward to the new prefixes - or perhaps not.
John Hoffman from a Siemans help center in Australia wrote: "I would be very grateful if we all started using the kibi, mebi, etc. units. The issue may seem unimportant to some but the confusion currently reigning with the use of kilo for 1,000 and 1,024 causes miscommunication whenever it arises." Greg DeRenne said he "wished we could have started out that way." Sally Carpenter and Phil G. agreed.
On the other side, Adam Heilbrunn, a technical writer, vowed to "fight" the new prefixes (which he views as jargon) "tooth and nail." Steve Pratt, a 28-year veteran of IT, perhaps represented a constituency when he said that, for him, kilo will always mean 1,024. "Always has, always will." And Ken Gallenbach points out that, for most IT users, the distinction between 1,000 and 1,024 is too fine to matter.
Two readers suggested that if the new prefixes came into usage, it would help to know how to pronounce them. As a result, we've added the officially specified pronunciation to our definition. Although in favor of the new prefixes, Sally Carpenter did suggest that, at least for a while, a kibibyte would sound less like 1,024 bytes and more like one little bite of a famous dog food.
See our updated Fast Reference with pronunciations for Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, and all that
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