Le mardi, 7 août 2012 22.46:03, Roger Lynn a écrit :
This has caught me out in the past. When it says gigabyte I expect 2^30
bytes. Hopefully this time when I do an installation I will remember to get
a calculator out. The people who don't care are mostly those who don't know
what a gigabyte
On 08/08/12 07:20, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
Le mardi, 7 août 2012 22.46:03, Roger Lynn a écrit :
This has caught me out in the past. When it says gigabyte I expect 2^30
bytes. Hopefully this time when I do an installation I will remember to get
a calculator out. The people who don't care
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:40:11 +0100
Roger Lynn ro...@rilynn.me.uk wrote:
Absolutely agreed. I wouldn't hope to see this fixed for Wheezy -
even just changing the wording of the text requires an enormous
amount of work at this stage - it's just frustrating to see it
apparently being dismissed
On 08/08/2012 09:19, Herbert Kaminski wrote:
Please have a look at IEC 60027-2 (or Wikipedia) to make clear that
the wording is absolutely correct. So if anybody wants to change
the units of measurement, a change to the wording _and_ the code
is required.
I don't think anyone has
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'important'
So if the partitioner invites people to specify their swap space, or any
other volume, in units of gigabytes, which JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY
understands to mean 2^30 in that context, and instead it uses the hard
disk manufacturers' phony units which are
Quoting ian_br...@fastmail.net (ian_br...@fastmail.net):
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'important'
So if the partitioner invites people to specify their swap space, or any
other volume, in units of gigabytes, which JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY
understands to mean 2^30 in that context, and instead
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:11:05 +0200
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote:
So if the partitioner invites people to specify their swap space, or
any other volume, in units of gigabytes, which JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY
understands to mean 2^30 in that context, and instead it uses the
hard disk
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:11:05 +0200,
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote:
I think you probably have a strange definition of just about
everybody. In reality, I think that just about nobody cares about
gigabytes being 2^30, or 10. This is basically splitting
hairs, which wishlist
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