On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:45:11 pm Remco wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <maco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:15:19 pm Remco wrote: > >> Take a look at the properties of a file in Nautilus. It will tell you > >> a file is x MB, and y bytes. > >> > >> I have a file here of "701.2 MB", which is "735270912 bytes". Now, if > >> it really *were* 701.2 MB, then it would be 701200000 bytes. So that's > >> clearly base 2, which should be MiB. > > > > I was disagreeing with the "under any" since AFAIK, Windows uses 1000 while > > Ubuntu does indeed use 1024. I'll take your word for it that Nautilus leaves > > out the i in GiB since I don't have it installed (KDE here). > > That's not the case in at least Windows XP. I just booted a VM and > have a file in Windows Explorer of "742KB", which is "760748 bytes". > For the same reason as my earlier Ubuntu example, this is clearly base > 2, and the wrong unit.
Huh....I wonder why they ask that then. Maybe their partitioner / formatting thing is different *shrug*. > So, what does KDE do? Crash. Any KDE users running something stable? My upgrade to Karmic seems to have broken things. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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