Re: xdg-user-dirs in the next ubuntu?

2007-06-15 Thread Sebastien Bacher
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

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Claeys
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

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, beca

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Claeys
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

Why is vim-gtk in universe?

2007-06-15 Thread Micah Cowan
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

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