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(Bastard, you knew that half the people here wouldn't be able to help themselves.)

Clearly you don't fully understand this crowd. 85% of the people are geeky enough to want to figure it out (and likely in multiple font sizes so that they can pick an answer that relates to pi or e or the Planck constant or some obscure prime or, well, you get the idea). However, 65% of all Slashdot readers are rather lazy (as evidenced by their lack of reading any posted article, and in many cases, even bothering to read the summary). So, using those numbers, we can extrapolate that clearly 55% of the people would attempt to find the answer. In your haste to be the first (which places you in the 10% Frosty Piss crowd), you merely estimated and rounded and didn't show your work.

Font selection would best work as fixed-width. Per this article, http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ I'll agree to Courier 12 pitch for it's simplistic measurements. Printed, this font is 12 characters per inch.

12 char per inch
1 petabyte = 1.12589991 × 10^15 bytes
circumference of Earth @ equator: 24,901.55 miles
((1.12589991 x (10^15))char / (12char/in * 12in/ft * 5 280ft/mi)) / 24 901.55mi = 59,467.1314 times around the Earth at the equator

(All math performed using Google calculator, because Google knows everything.)

Layne

Yikes, ouch. But the subject of which console font to use has been the subject of much discussion, with no real winner. I personally am glad to see someone with deep pockets throwing their hat into the arena. Consola looks really nice on my screen. Now, if only I could get my editor to do anti-aliasing. (Emacs-Xft, any frikkin year now.)

GEDCOM is the standard file format for geneology information. There are plenty of products that import or use this format. GEDCOM was developed by the LDS Church (Mormons). They also have a free program to manage your geneological data called Personal Ancestral File. Personally I use PHPGEDView to manage my family geneology data (view here

The last 2KM they where whining quite a bit but after an hour of rest they were bouncing around. Granted, they are pretty active kids. Here are some pics from the trip:

http://lowing.org/mexico/

I've found the smoothed Vera Sans Mono very pleasant and usable in both gvim and emacs (gentoo emacs-cvs) and you may also be interested in this if you didn't see it already in the recent K5 article. Some of the fonts listed there are pretty good.

Simply save this file to your windows drive that contains the spreadsheets, rename to XLS2HTM.vbs and run. Edit the file to Change the SaveAs constant and the file extension you want and away you go. To get better results converting Excel or Word files to HTML also use HTMLTidy (tidy.exe) along with this config script

XLS2HTM.vbs.txt

Simply save this file to your windows drive that contains the spreadsheets, rename to XLS2HTM.vbs and run. Edit the file to Change the SaveAs constant and the file extension you want and away you go. To get better results converting Excel or Word files to HTML also use HTMLTidy (tidy.exe) along with this config script

XLS2HTM.vbs.txt

I ran into a similar predicament and decided to roll my own. So far I have Stories, Comments, Events, Accounts and and a calendar. I think I have maybe 12 pages of php. Sites based on Nuke just have too much legacy code clutter.