On 27/02/14 11:41, C. Falconer wrote:
Volker Kuhlmann wrote, On 27/02/14 11:27:
On Thu 27 Feb 2014 09:14:28 NZDT +1300, C. Falconer wrote:
Pffft. My home server started in June 2000 as Debian Slink (that's
version 2.1 in imperial measurements)
Metric was useable numbers with decimal point and imperial something
braindead, wasn't it? Looks like you go it the wrong way round.
Oooo - the national stereotype for "no sense of humour" is showing :)
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CF
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It's called sarcasm (mixed with a good portion of "Germany lecturing
everybody else on how things ought to be done").
But to be fair to Volker, he does have a technical point... I mean, it's
all good and easy that there are twelve inches to a foot, and three feet
to a yard, but once you need to convert between yards and miles (which
one?), or cubic inches and gallons (again, which one?) it tends to get
messy. That's what gives the miracles of modern engineering, like for
example the HP 48GX, their right to exist - after all, who needs a
calculator like that if all you need to do to convert units is shifting
the decimal point?! And this brings us right back on topic, because
there is an emulation of the 48GX that runs on Linux, and a variant for
Android is also available (Droid48), and that, too, is Linux-based.
Kind regards,
Helmut.
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