Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-05 Thread Jan Claeys
Op woensdag 03-06-2009 om 23:11 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Evan: > On the issue of user-interface, and KB vs KiB, please clarify whether > you would always prefer KB, or you would prefer using KB for base-10 > and KiB for base-2. I vote for correctness, so the latter. > On the issue of labelin

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-05 Thread Jan Claeys
Op dinsdag 02-06-2009 om 10:59 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Christopher Chan: > The interface speed in base10 yes. The number of bytes transferred, > NO, because that is and has always been base2. I more or less agree with that: interface speed & transfer speed should by in base10, number of byte

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-05 Thread Jan Claeys
Op maandag 01-06-2009 om 07:46 uur [tijdzone +0300], schreef Lars Wirzenius: > Whether the free software world standardizes on base-2, base-10, I'd suggest we leave it to the software developers to choose between base2 & base10 (at least for the defaults), as they are supposed to know best what's

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-05 Thread Jan Claeys
Op maandag 01-06-2009 om 12:03 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Christopher Chan: > Stop changing age old conventions. kilo = 1000 is in fact ages older than kilo = 1024 :P -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: On apturls and repositories

2009-06-05 Thread Jan Claeys
Op dinsdag 02-06-2009 om 10:32 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Derek Broughton: > I would add - keyserver.ubuntu.com should handle HTTP lookups! I > finally realized why I have so much trouble updating apt from work: > because the firewall blocks hkp. HKP is HTTP, so your problem is probably that y

Re: Question about package usage of /opt

2009-06-05 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vrijdag 05-06-2009 om 06:13 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef LD 'Gus' Landis: > So, I would think that a good way to "package" Cache > would be to have it stored somewhere (under /usr/share??), /usr/share is for platform-independent files, which I doubt is true for Caché? (Some years ago I fo

Re: Question about package usage of /opt

2009-06-05 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Pau, Great! Relative to packaging, IMO, there is something quite different about ISC Cache from FNIS GT.M, and I think has significant installation ramifications. When I say "database instance", think Cache "environment". The GT.M software can be completely isolated from the actua