Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 10:49 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm proposing the use of xdg-user-dirs in the next Ubuntu release,
> while I'm not intending to copy OSX or Windows
> for having ~/Music or ~/Movies directory, I just think it's positive
> to have those in the first pla
Op woensdag 13-06-2007 om 20:17 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Christof
Krüger:
> 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 rest of the world already uses kilo as 1000.
The SI sym
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, beca
Op vrijdag 15-06-2007 om 13:46 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Phillip
Susi:
> 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.
The problem is that it's used for both decimal & binary mult
The question I'd like to ask, is: why is vim-gtk in universe, whereas
the other vims (which come from the very same source package) are in main?
Part of the motivation for this question is bug 110152 in Malone:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/110152
In that bug, users report up
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