On Monday 09 February 2004 12:21, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote >> >> > I also go into the source and change the columns with single >> > decimal digits to having zero decimal digits and no decimal >> > point. Do I really care if the tape rate was 975.8 KB/sec as >> > compared to 976? Or that u07's /var FS compressed to 43.2 >> > percent of its original size vs 43%? >> >> YES! For $DEITY's sake, man, don't carelessly toss away >> precious significant digits! >> >> Ahem. This aside has been brought to you by my type A, >> engineering past. > >The $NETHERDEITY you say! The digits are not tossed, just not > reported. They are recoverable by dividing two other columns. ;)
Chuckle, I see everyones humor bone is in good shape today. Actually, I've heard that if its only off by point double ought zip, "thats close enough for the girls I go with!" :) With that, if I haven't mentioned it before, I will be out of pocket for a bit, I'm flying to upstate MI tomorrow morning to apply the defib paddles to a tv station thats been dark a bit too long and the license is in danger. Hopefully I can get it to breathing regularly again. NDI what I'm walking into, but the price & fringies are ok. I've got my scope, a DVM, a decent soldering iron and some small hand tools packed, anything else I'll let petty cash buy, & fedex deliver. I hear the place is toolless. Ick... I'll likely be around the rest of the evening but will do a gracefull shutdown late tonight. Asking the nearly computer illiterate missus to keep the tapes changed runs up my phone bill :-) OTOH, she did it for a couple of weeks 2 years ago. I'll resign from the lists, else my 10 meg mailbox will be full in a day or 2. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
