Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:37:20 +0100, Richard Hector wrote: Of course the ultimate craziness is "1.44Mb" (1440kiB) floppies Wow, I never noticed that, or I have forgotten hat I noticed it. In my defence, I used 3.5" discs quasi only for the Atari ST, so most of them are DD, but indeed, I've

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 16/02/13 17:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Powers of 10 make completely no sense. Why not simply dropping the > powers of 10 and using the prefixes *B and *iB both for the powers of 2? Powers of 2 make sense when you're talking about RAM, where the modules have a certain number of binary address lin

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-15 Thread doug
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:20:54 +0100, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And who declared these made-up prefixes "official"? Making up prefixes for something which has always been that way is confusing. It's simple. When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2. When dealing with distances, it's powers

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:20:54 +0100, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And who declared these made-up prefixes "official"? Making up prefixes for something which has always been that way is confusing. It's simple. When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2. When dealing with distances, it's power

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 09:50 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 13 feb 13, 14:08:15, Richard Hector wrote: Abusing the standard prefixes like that was always a horrible hack. +1 It's also a major source of confusion for many

Re: audacious : mousewheel volume control

2013-02-15 Thread orang Aumori Jepun
Sorry , Rob, I replied directly to you, so resend to this list. > In ~/.config/audacious/config, there is a parameter called > mouse_wheel_change.  I expect that is what you're looking for. > > By the way, most software on Linux systems keep user settings in hidden > files in the user's home dire

Re: audacious : mousewheel volume control

2013-02-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 09:16:42PM +0900, orang Aumori Jepun wrote: > Hi, all. > > I'm using Debian Squeeze. > While I'm using audacious music player, I can increase/decrease audio volume > by 5% with mouse wheel. > But , I want change the 5% to 1% or any value I want. > Anyone please tell me how

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:58:16 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:41:47PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > On 13/02/13 14:32, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > > On 2/12/2013 4:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > >> Assumed you'll build a fence, 10m long and every 1m there should > >

audacious : mousewheel volume control

2013-02-15 Thread orang Aumori Jepun
Hi, all. I'm using Debian Squeeze. While I'm using audacious music player, I can increase/decrease audio volume by 5% with mouse wheel. But , I want change the 5% to 1% or any value I want. Anyone please tell me how to do . Ubuntu hardy had a preference menu to change the value , but debian squee

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:09:16PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Indeed, but we're talking about 3GB of memory here, which seems hard to > justify for such an application. Sure, but my point was it's not a leak. Being memory inefficient is one thing. Leaking memory is where, over time, it takes m

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 03:56:58PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:35:01PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: > > > > (Finally, as we know, there's only 10 kinds of people...) > > Yeah, those that put people into categories and those that don't :) Then surely you're in the cat