Re: Release Team Meeting results (the Juelich Edition)

2007-06-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/06/07 at 01:19 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Review of the Etch release cycle > > * Quality Assurance (QA) checks on the archive were started very late in >the cycle. They were very useful, but the timing was very unfortunate. >We want to encourage al

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread Ben Finney
Ivan Jager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, I prefer SI units over imperial ones, but there are no SI units > for information, so we're stuck using bits and bytes. The issue isn't over the chosen unit. The issue is over the chosen *abbreviations*. We use 'B' for byte, 'b' for bit; that's not at

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Ivan Jager [Fri, Jun 15 2007, 05:36:33PM]: > How about when you buy an 80 GB disk, and you know it's 80 * 10^9 bytes, > but your software says /home only has 79 GB and you know it means > 79 * 10^9 bytes? First, it would hardly say 79GB. Maybe 79.96GB which is much closer. > Should w

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread Ivan Jager
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:46:10PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Because we needed a name, and Kilo is a good one to use. There is no rule that says you can't use the word for a different meaning in a different context. Which context would this be?

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread Criggie
Joe Smith wrote: > Also just rembering the exact conversion factors for > Imperial units can be a problem especially with some of the more obscure > units. Nope - google knows everything! http://www.google.com/search?hl=email&rls=email&q=100+m%2Fs+in+fathoms+per+fortnight "2 parsecs in smoots" r

Re: What happened to Agnula.org (DeMuDi)?

2007-06-15 Thread Fernando Ike de Oliveira
Em Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:51:39 +0200 RalfGesellensetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Am Dienstag 09 Januar 2007 08:44 schrieb Nico Golde: > > http://www.agnula.info/ seems to be the new domain. > > Kind regards > > Nico > > Hi Nico, > Hi! > thanks for the information. I cite > > "IMPORTANT:

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread cascardo
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:46:10PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > Because we needed a name, and Kilo is a good one to use. There is no > rule that says you can't use the word for a different meaning in a > different context. Which context would this be? Computer Science? Computer Engineering? Compu

Re: Bug#428877: ITP: callweaver -- Community-driven open source PBX software

2007-06-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 15 June 2007 00:46:45 Marcus Better wrote: > It would be helpful to know how it differs from Asterisk, since Asterisk > too supports many of the features you list. Where Asterisk requires copyright assignment to Digium for code incorporated in to the mainline, Codeweaver allows contribu

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread Phillip Susi
Christof Krüger wrote: Unfortunately, computer designers, technicians etc. are not living in an isolated world (well.. maybe some of them). No one wants to forbid the computer people to use base 2 numbers. They are just asked to write KiB instead of KB if they mean base 2 quantities, because the

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread Ivan Jager
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ben Finney wrote: David Verhasselt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Perhaps transforming it into a localization problem would do the trick. This way, users would be able to set their preference on byte-count in the same place as their preference on currency, decimal, and am/pm

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Bug#428971: ITP: zenoss-plugins -- Zenoss plugins for remote data collection via SSH

2007-06-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zenoss-plugins Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Christopher Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.zenoss.com/download/links * License : GPL Programming Lang