Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Jones
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 19:56 -0500, Mark Reitblatt wrote: > On 6/11/07, Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fine. Stick with Kilobytes, but strictly define it as 10^3 bytes. Just > > choose one over the other and be consistent. > > That's not "consistent". Kilobyte has always meant 2^10 bytes

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Mark Reitblatt
On 6/11/07, Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fine. Stick with Kilobytes, but strictly define it as 10^3 bytes. Just > choose one over the other and be consistent. That's not "consistent". Kilobyte has always meant 2^10 bytes. "kilo" in "kilobyte" is not an SI prefix. SI prefixes only apply

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Jones
Fine. Stick with Kilobytes, but strictly define it as 10^3 bytes. Just choose one over the other and be consistent. On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 01:53 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It isn't just ubuntu or debian but this needs to be done > > everywhere. > > No i

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Miles Bader
shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It isn't just ubuntu or debian but this needs to be done > everywhere. No it doesn't. The "SI binary prefixes" are an abomination. "Kibibytes"? Christ... [Did they try pronouncing these horrid things when "standarizing" them?!?] -Miles -- We are all

Re: Announcing wineui

2007-06-11 Thread Joshua A. Andler
By any chance have you tried FileZilla 3 on Windows? It's the same thing as the one on Linux (although slower on Windows). FZ3 is a full rewrite, this is not a "port" to linux, it was rewritten from the ground up to be cross-platform. At some point FZ3 will be the recommended version and FZ2 will

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Bastian Venthur
shirish wrote: > Hi all, > Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix . I > put a bug up for it https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/119822 & > Aaron helpfully said it needs more discussion. I have had great > support from libtorrent code.rasterbar.com as well as the guys at

Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread shirish
Ugh, The second example I wanted to give was of libburnia http://libburnia-project.org/changeset/877 . Sorry -- Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- Ubuntu-devel-discu

Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread shirish
Hi all, Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix . I put a bug up for it https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/119822 & Aaron helpfully said it needs more discussion. I have had great support from libtorrent code.rasterbar.com as well as the guys at deluge http://dev.deluge-

Ubuntu Gusty - Tribe 1 + Repositories

2007-06-11 Thread Sky_walkie
Yo people, Is there a working repository for the Gusty alpha 1 release, my update manager isn't working properly .. By checking the path to target rep's Firefox says no way .. is there a solution where to reconfigure the paths to be working ? Sky_walkie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list U

Re: Applicability of DebianMaintainerField spec to packages not sourced from Debian

2007-06-11 Thread Emmet Hikory
On 6/11/07, William Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Emmet Hikory wrote: <...> > > Default Maintainer: "Ubuntu Core Developers" or Ubuntu "MOTU > > Developers", as appropriate > > They should be the default, but more specific maintainers like MOTU > Science or MOTU Media (or a specific person