Re: Does metacity compositor use acceleration?

2008-03-28 Thread James "Doc" Livingston
On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 03:31 +0100, thibaut bethune wrote: > "No, you don't need 3D acceleration for this compositor, so cards with > sucky GL will be able to use it. You will however need a good and fast > XRender implementation. I'm using the both the binary NVidia driver > and the opensource Inte

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread James \"Doc\" Livingston
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 00:35 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote: > I agree that this is the way to go. However, I think the OP wanted to > suggest to have something like an official policy so that > changes/patches are also created by ubuntu and eventually proposed > upstream. > But I guess there will be

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread James \"Doc\" Livingston
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:01 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:29 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Without the binary unit to consider, when we quote a drive as 1TB, we > > know that it has *at least* 1,000,000,000,000 bytes available. > > Depending on the drive, it may have a