On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 19:56 -0500, Mark Reitblatt wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Fine. Stick with Kilobytes, but strictly define it as 10^3 bytes. Just
> > choose one over the other and be consistent.
>
> That's not "consistent". Kilobyte has always meant 2^10 bytes
On 12/06/07 15:37, Christof Krüger wrote:
> Just because something has been done wrong for a long time doesn't make
> it right. People who know the inconsistencies get used to them and do
> not want to change it because it may be inconvenient for them or it
> simply sounds stupid to them (what an a
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:37 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote:
> Another "historic" example is a floppy-MB:
> A 1.44MB floppy disc can store 1,474,560 Bytes, that is 1440 KiB and
> 1.40625 MiB or approximately 1475KB or 1.48MB with kilo=10^3 and
> mega=10^6.
> However, these floppies were known as "1.4
You are right. its the FZ2 version that I love.
I cant get used to the FZ3 design
On 6/11/07, Joshua A. Andler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By any chance have you tried FileZilla 3 on Windows? It's the same thing
> as the one on Linux (although slower on Windows).
>
> FZ3 is a full rewrite, this i
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:24 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:37 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote:
>
> > Another "historic" example is a floppy-MB:
> > A 1.44MB floppy disc can store 1,474,560 Bytes, that is 1440 KiB and
> > 1.40625 MiB or approximately 1475KB or 1.48MB with
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 13:01 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote:
> Let me give you an example from the real world:
> There was a bridge to build over the river Rhine connecting Switzerland
> and Germany. You have to know that sea levels are defined differently in
> both countries so if you plan to build
Scott James Remnant a écrit :
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 13:01 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote:
>
>> Let me give you an example from the real world:
>> There was a bridge to build over the river Rhine connecting Switzerland
>> and Germany. You have to know that sea levels are defined differently in
>> b
Firefox has a new symbol server that can automatically include
symbol data on a crash even if the user doesn't have debug info
installed. Of course it will only work if your net is connected.
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2007-06-11/debugging-official-builds-or-how-cool-is-the-mozilla-symbol-s
Hi,
Jon Smirl [2007-06-12 9:56 -0400]:
> Firefox has a new symbol server that can automatically include
> symbol data on a crash even if the user doesn't have debug info
> installed. Of course it will only work if your net is connected.
>
> http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2007-06-11/debugging-
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:24 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> The difference is a sufficiently small percentage, that most users will
> not care.
No, like I said in my earlier post, the error grows quickly. As 1.024^x,
in fact.
x = 1 kibi vs. kilo 2.4%
x = 2 mebi vs. mega
shirish writes ("Using standardized SI prefixes"):
> Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix .
Urgh, these things are ugly and an abomination. We should avoid them.
Ian.
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On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:50 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:24 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > The difference is a sufficiently small percentage, that most users will
> > not care.
>
> No, like I said in my earlier post, the error grows quickly. As 1.024^x,
> in fact.
>
Actually bandwidth is mesured in bits per second and no bytes per second
On 6/12/07, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bandwidth should be quoted in true SI units over a metric of time,
>e.g. kilobytes-per-second (e.g. the average UK DSL upload speed is
>250kbps == 250,0
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 16:50 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> Actually bandwidth is mesured in bits per second and no bytes per second
>
> On 6/12/07, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Bandwidth should be quoted in true SI units over a metric of time,
> >e.g. kilobytes
Christof Krüger wrote:
> Let me give you an example from the real world:
> There was a bridge to build over the river Rhine connecting Switzerland
> and Germany. You have to know that sea levels are defined differently in
> both countries so if you plan to build a bridge you have to take it into
>
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 12:54 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> I fail to see the relationship between "different reference points"
> and "screwing the calculation". In this case there was no ambiguity,
> engineers knew exactly what to do, but screwed up. Its like saying someone
> screwed up converting
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I work a research and development arm of a Japanese phone company. We
are often asked to build prototypes of new devices, and our first tool
out of the box is nearly always Linux.
Up until this point, most of our prototypes have been built either from
a cus
Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is a strong advocation for using powers of ten everywhere, and
> abolishing the use of powers of two multiples altogether, no?
Nothing needs to be abolished but inconsistency. The same good would
be had by *knowing the difference*, and differ
Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:50 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:24 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Especially nowadays with terabyte disks coming out and hitting the
> > consumer market, there is *no place* for 10% of ambi
Op dinsdag 12-06-2007 om 15:52 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Ian
Jackson:
> shirish writes ("Using standardized SI prefixes"):
> > Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix .
>
> Urgh, these things are ugly and an abomination. We should avoid them.
They aren't more ugly tha
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