On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any
context where KB stands together as written with K meaning
karat.
That's not surprising--in SI, the prefix is the scale factor, and
the
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On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any
context where KB stands together as written with K meaning
karat.
That's not surprising--in SI, the prefix is the scale
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:38:16PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
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On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any
context where KB stands together as written with K meaning
Willie Wonka wrote:
Serial ATA (SATA) data transfer rate specification = 1500 *mbps* or
*mb/sec* (megabits per second).
No. Megabits be per second is Mbps (lowercase m means milli).
Daniel
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Willie Wonka wrote:
...
1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
^^
I forgot to capitalize my 'B' in Byte above
The word byte doesn't need to be capitalized. (Were you thinking
of the capitalized letter B by itself when it stands for the word
byte?)
Daniel
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Willie Wonka wrote:
...
IOW - Is this how one would correctly display these rates ?
1500mbps = 1.5gbps = 187.5mBps = 1.875gBps ?
I think you mean 1500Mbps = 1.5Gbps = 187.5MBps = 1.875GBps
As you can see the capitalized 'B' appears a tad ...'out of place'(?),
but it's likely /very/
Mike McCarty wrote:
Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any
context where KB stands together as written with K meaning
karat.
That's not surprising--in SI, the prefix is the scale factor, and
the remainder is the unit. I don't think there are any unit symbols
that
On Monday, May 08, 2006 6:47 PM GMT,
Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Willie Wonka wrote:
...
IOW - Is this how one would correctly display these rates ?
1500mbps = 1.5gbps = 187.5mBps = 1.875gBps ?
I think you mean 1500Mbps = 1.5Gbps = 187.5MBps = 1.875GBps
AFAIK, SATA uses a start
Am 2006-04-26 08:27:14, schrieb Ron Johnson:
That's because we don't need any more. It gives our brains more
room to successfully figure out how to convince people to pay US$80
for pieces of denim cloth stitched together by workers in Malaysian
sweat shops.
;-/
Greetings
Michelle
Am 2006-04-26 10:35:22, schrieb Gene Heskett:
Yes, sad isn't it, particularly since the keyboard configs used here for
linux don't very well allow the painless typeing of such characters.
I personally think our keyboard mapping should allow, via the alt keys,
as much of the full 8 bit
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 04:59:08PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
It's not only Aussies who add 'r' at the end of words, then English do
as well. Especially when two vowels collide:
There is no 'r' added. What you are alluding to is changing the sound
of the vowel.
Consider father and fat.
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
into a text-only message.
There isn't
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-21 15:18:18, schrieb Mike McCarty:
Guantanamo is not a territory. It is a base which is leased from
Right, same for Aserbaijan...
But the US-Governement treat it like this.
No. They treat it like any other base. It has no representation,
whereas people
According to Mike McCarty,
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
into a
Tony Godshall wrote:
According to Mike McCarty,
Michelle Konzack wrote:
You forget, that the american brain is limited
to 128 characters called US-ASCII.
You forget what the A in ASCII means. If you Europeans
want to take over something we made for ourselves, then
you should at least have
Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
into a text-only message.
There isn't anything non-ISO about ä,
Am 2006-04-21 15:18:18, schrieb Mike McCarty:
Guantanamo is not a territory. It is a base which is leased from
Right, same for Aserbaijan...
But the US-Governement treat it like this.
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
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Am 2006-04-21 15:19:23, schrieb Mike McCarty:
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-11 23:37:59, schrieb tom arnall:
IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???
NO, because it is debian-user and not debian-moderator ;-)
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
Why, yes there are list admnistrators
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 02:03 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
into
On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:03, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
into a
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:48:58PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
We should have gone all the way to simplified spelling.
Surely you've seen that internet joke about simplified spelling, where
the silent e gets dropped, and y's that sound like an i get replaced by
an i, and the
Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let me re-iterate in case that wasn't clear enough. There are many text
formats, of which ISO *is* one. But ASCII is the only subset common to
almost all, and consequently IMHO is the most appropriate for a public
formum where you can't make assumptions
Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let me re-iterate in case that wasn't clear enough. There are many text
formats, of which ISO *is* one. But ASCII is the only subset common to
almost all, and consequently IMHO is the most appropriate for a public
formum where you can't make assumptions
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:12:16PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
If you are using a graphical display, then UTF provides a good way to
avoid the problem if your mail reading software can do the translation.
But I don't think you can assume everyone on a public
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you need a graphical display for? If everything is properly set
up, special characters will display just fine in text mode. For a few
weeks I read mail using mutt, including -l10n-romanian, where special
characters are used on regular basis and
Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All very strange. I grew up with lowercase for small, uppercase for large:
m milli- 10^-3
c centi- 10^-2
d deci-10^-1
D deca-10
H hecta- 10^2
K kilo-10^3
M mega-10^6
G giga-10^9
etc...
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:16:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are using a graphical display, then UTF provides a good way to
avoid the problem if your mail reading software can do the translation.
But I don't think you can assume everyone on
Mike McCarty wrote:
Why, yes there are list admnistrators which sometimes act
as moderators. Just recently, there was one who made some
unfriendly threats around here...
Mike
References please.
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On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:58:01 +0100, Doofus wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Why, yes there are list admnistrators which sometimes act
as moderators. Just recently, there was one who made some
unfriendly threats around here...
Mike
References please.
For a start, I can offer you a
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:58:01 +0100, Doofus wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Why, yes there are list admnistrators which sometimes act
as moderators. Just recently, there was one who made some
unfriendly threats around here...
Mike
References please.
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 18:34:34 +0100, Doofus wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
For a start, I can offer you a threat of forcibly assisted
unsubscription:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg01252.html
That was an interesting read.
No well adjusted and reasonably
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 18:34:34 +0100, Doofus wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
For a start, I can offer you a threat of forcibly assisted
unsubscription:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg01252.html
That was an interesting read.
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 20:35 +0100, Doofus wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 18:34:34 +0100, Doofus wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
[snip]
Every message that was thenceforth posted to this particular thread was
artificially delayed for one day before it was
Paul Johnson wrote:
That's right, except it's kb or kB (for kilobits and kilobytes
respectively), never KB or Kb. k is kilo, K is Karat.
Paul just mistook prefixes and units...
mm is milimeter, where first 'm' means mili and second 'm' means
meter. One letter can have more meanings.
On
On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
Explained another way (hopefully);
If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'.
On
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:37:08AM +0100, Wulfy wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Which was my point. Using Jaegermeister is locale independent.
So? A misconfigured system is no reason for changing the spelling of
something. Change the cause not the effect...
Well, it's not really a
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:52:17PM +0100, Wulfy wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Wulfy wrote:
Digby Tarvin wrote:
ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII
in a standard way.
Unicode is text... just not ASCII.
So is Hiragana. So is Kanji. So is Arabic. So is
From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:31, Willie Wonka wrote:
Maybe I'm dense, but;
kb = kilobit
KB = KiloByte
mb = megabit
MB = MegaByte
1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
1 Byte / 8 = 1 bit
That's right, except it's kb or kB (for kilobits and kilobytes
respectively),
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Only if they want most people to read what they write.
Should people who use Hindi characters change?
How about Arabic? Hebrew? How about Linear B?
If someone posts Arabic text then he might use Arabic characters with
a proper encoding. Do you want
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:09:08PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Why do we even want people only to post in English?
Because this is an English-language mailing list. There are other
mailing lists for other languages.
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+++ Matus UHLAR - fantomas [21/04/06 08:54 +0200]:
On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
Explained another way (hopefully);
If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
The big 'K' was chosen
Am 2006-04-11 23:37:59, schrieb tom arnall:
IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???
NO, because it is debian-user and not debian-moderator ;-)
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
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Am 2006-04-11 16:40:59, schrieb Ron Johnson:
.us = 300,000,000
Not right, because the there are 150,000,000 illegal mexicans in the
USA and 50,000,000 illegal prisoners in US-Teritory like Guantanamo.
=8O
.uk + .ca + .au + .nz = 60,600,000 + 33,000,000 + 20,200,000 +
4,100,000 =
Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are using a graphical display, then UTF provides a good way to
avoid the problem if your mail reading software can do the translation.
But I don't think you can assume everyone on a public mailing list is
going to have that.
Regards,
DigbyT
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
That's right, except it's kb or kB (for kilobits and kilobytes
respectively), never KB or Kb. k is kilo, K is Karat.
Paul just mistook prefixes and units...
mm is milimeter, where first 'm' means mili and second 'm' means
meter. One letter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:37:08AM +0100, Wulfy wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Which was my point. Using Jaegermeister is locale independent.
So? A misconfigured system is no reason for changing the spelling of
something. Change the cause not the effect...
Mike McCarty wrote:
I can show you a meters tall stack of Electronics Magazines which
dispute that. Convention since I got involved (in about 1964 or so)
is k and K both mean 1000 when referring to electronics units.
It's no good looking there for rigor: capitals for big numbers (but only
over
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-11 16:40:59, schrieb Ron Johnson:
.us = 300,000,000
Not right, because the there are 150,000,000 illegal mexicans in the
USA and 50,000,000 illegal prisoners in US-Teritory like Guantanamo.
Guantanamo is not a territory. It is a base which is leased from
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-11 23:37:59, schrieb tom arnall:
IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???
NO, because it is debian-user and not debian-moderator ;-)
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
Why, yes there are list admnistrators which sometimes act
as moderators. Just recently,
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-11 16:40:59, schrieb Ron Johnson:
.us = 300,000,000
Not right, because the there are 150,000,000 illegal mexicans in the
USA and 50,000,000 illegal prisoners in US-Teritory like Guantanamo.
On Friday 21 April 2006 18:04, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-11 16:40:59, schrieb Ron Johnson:
.us = 300,000,000
Not right, because the there are 150,000,000 illegal mexicans in
the USA and 50,000,000 illegal
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:12:16PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
If you are using a graphical display, then UTF provides a good way to
avoid the problem if your mail reading software can do the translation.
But I don't think you can assume everyone on a public mailing list is
going to have
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:04:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Willie Wonka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in
the word color?)
To: Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Digby R. S. Tarvin writes:
If you want your message to be understood by people that are not using
graphical applications to read their email then it is best to stick to
ASCII text.
I'm using Gnus which is not graphical and it displays umlauts just fine.
You don't need graphics to display ISO
Mike McCarty wrote:
Wulfy wrote:
Digby Tarvin wrote:
ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII
in a standard way.
Unicode is text... just not ASCII.
So is Hiragana. So is Kanji. So is Arabic. So is Hebrew. So is Cyrillic.
So?
Digby said that ISO wasn't text
Mike McCarty wrote:
Wulfy wrote:
Digby Tarvin wrote:
ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII
in a standard way.
Unicode is text... just not ASCII.
So is Hiragana. So is Kanji. So is Arabic. So is Hebrew. So is Cyrillic.
So?
Digby said that ISO wasn't text
Matthias Julius wrote:
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The ae is a poorman form of æ.
In German it is perfectly legitimate to use ae instead of ä if you
can not use that for what ever reason. It is just ugly. The
character æ is used nowhere in German.
Matthias
But it is in
Wulfy wrote:
Matthias Julius wrote:
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The ae is a poorman form of æ.
In German it is perfectly legitimate to use ae instead of ä if you
can not use that for what ever reason. It is just ugly. The
character æ is used nowhere in German.
Mike McCarty wrote:
Only if they want most people to read what they write.
Should people who use Hindi characters change?
How about Arabic? Hebrew? How about Linear B?
Why do we even want people only to post in English? Why not post
in whatever your native tongue is? I guess I'll switch to
Wulfy wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Only if they want most people to read what they write.
Should people who use Hindi characters change?
How about Arabic? Hebrew? How about Linear B?
Why do we even want people only to post in English? Why not post
in whatever your native tongue is? I guess I'll
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:23:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 11:44, Digby Tarvin wrote:
If you want your message to be understood by people that are not using
graphical applications to read their email then it is best to stick to
ASCII text.
I am in the UK,
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wulfy wrote:
Digby Tarvin wrote:
When I read your original message I see a Cyrillic capital 'D' between
the 'J' and the 'germeister'. If I use vi or cat to view the message, I
see 'J=E4germeister' or 'J0xe4germeister', which is less than clear..
Not
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:31, Willie Wonka wrote:
Maybe I'm dense, but;
kb = kilobit
KB = KiloByte
mb = megabit
MB = MegaByte
1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
1 Byte / 8 = 1 bit
That's right, except it's kb or kB (for kilobits and kilobytes respectively),
never KB or Kb. k
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:31, Willie Wonka wrote:
Maybe I'm dense, but;
kb = kilobit
KB = KiloByte
mb = megabit
MB = MegaByte
1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
^^
I forgot to capitalize my 'B' in Byte above
1 Byte / 8 = 1 bit
That's right, except
On 18.04.06 05:31, Willie Wonka wrote:
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
Explained another way (hopefully);
If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
The big 'K' was chosen
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:22 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
mb = megabit
nope, small 'm' snands for 'mili' which is 1/1 000 000 e.g. one
millionth
part.
m = milli = 1 / 1 000
u (greek letter mu) = micro = 1 / 1 000 000
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Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
No. If you look closely, you'll see that I put those symbols
inside of slash marks. That means that they are phonemes,
and the /j/ phoneme indicates a sound similar to the consonantal
y in English, as in yet. As an
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 07:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
No. If you look closely, you'll see that I put those symbols
inside of slash marks. That means that they are phonemes,
and the /j/ phoneme indicates a sound similar
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 07:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
No. If you look closely, you'll see that I put those symbols
inside of slash marks. That means that they are phonemes,
and the /j/ phoneme
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:31, Willie Wonka wrote:
Maybe I'm dense, but;
kb = kilobit
KB = KiloByte
mb = megabit
MB = MegaByte
1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
1 Byte / 8 = 1 bit
That's right, except it's kb or kB (for kilobits and kilobytes respectively),
never KB or Kb. k is
Willie Wonka wrote:
[snip]
Contextually though, they are completely different - like oh say using
the acronym *IDE* , which can be Integrated Device Electronics -or-
Integrated Development Environment ((in most 'computer' circles) and
completely dependent upon the context of it's use).
oh,
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
Explained another way (hopefully);
If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'.
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
Nope, it's Jägermeister. It's one of my favorite drinks.
Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
into a text-only message.
There
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
Nope, it's Jägermeister. It's one of my favorite drinks.
Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
into a text-only
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 07:57 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 07:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
No. If you look closely, you'll see that I put those symbols
inside of slash marks. That means that they
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:33:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 07:57 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 07:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
No. If you look closely, you'll see that
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:53 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:33:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 07:57 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 07:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:06:42PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:53 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:33:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 07:57 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 07:00, Mike McCarty
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 14:33, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 07:57 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 07:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
No. If you look closely, you'll see that I put
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:50:06AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
Nope, it's J?germeister. It's one of my favorite drinks.
Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is
Digby Tarvin wrote:
ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII
in a standard way.
Unicode is text... just not ASCII.
When I read your original message I see a Cyrillic capital 'D' between
the 'J' and the 'germeister'. If I use vi or cat to view the message, I
see
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 11:44, Digby Tarvin wrote:
If you want your message to be understood by people that are not using
graphical applications to read their email then it is best to stick to
ASCII text.
I am in the UK, but I never try to use shift-3 to insert a pound symbol
into an
Wulfy wrote:
Digby Tarvin wrote:
ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII in
a standard way.
Unicode is text... just not ASCII.
So is Hiragana. So is Kanji. So is Arabic. So is Hebrew. So is Cyrillic.
So?
When I read your original message I see a Cyrillic
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There isn't anything non-ISO about ä, including it in a message doesn't
make
it not text only.
Right.
The ae is a poorman form of æ.
In German it is perfectly legitimate to use ae instead of ä if you
can not use that for what ever reason. It is
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nope. Both the K and the k have been used in electronics
to mean times 1000 since I got involved in about 1965 or so.
That might be. But, SI standard only knows about k.
Matthias
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On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
Explained another way (hopefully);
If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'.
But this can't be applied for 'M'
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:32:50AM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Willie Wonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In this example, I'll use [Sector=512Bytes] and [Track=4096Bytes =
8
Sectors].
Data (File) that occupies more space than 1 sector (512Bytes), will
fill up
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
Explained another way (hopefully);
If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'.
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:10 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 10:36 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:32:48 +0300
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
phonemes. In my dialect of
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:10 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 10:36 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:32:48 +0300
Andrei Popescu
Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
Explained another way (hopefully);
If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from
Willie Wonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
Explained another way (hopefully);
If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
The big 'K' was chosen
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:31, Willie Wonka wrote:
Maybe I'm dense, but;
kb = kilobit
KB = KiloByte
mb = megabit
MB = MegaByte
1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
1 Byte / 8 = 1 bit
That's right, except it's kb or kB (for kilobits and kilobytes respectively),
never KB or Kb. k is kilo, K is Karat.
--
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Willie Wonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually - Block sizes are what they are (in binary), because
computers
use Binary language to communicate/operate...Many HDD manufacturers
just like to *lie* and use a diff integer base (base10)...to make
the
HDD look larger.
Willie Wonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Binary Example
1,024
1,048,576
1,073,741,824
1,099,511,627,776
notice the 'column' of numbers (aligned vertically, from the top);
024
048
073
099
The difference (between decimal/binary) as sizes increase is _never_
the same *percentage*
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:32:48 +0300
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. And the resulting text is not so unintelligible if you are
used to phonetic spelling.
Like the Romanian language has. (Just to be clear)
Are you sure? Many native speakers of
Magnus Therning wrote:
I can't believe I'm jumping into this.
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:28:54AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]:
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
And c will still be needed for
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sunday 16 April 2006 04:28, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]:
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
And c will still be needed for ch (as in church, not the k
in school/skool).
Don't
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Willie Wonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Binary Example
1,024
1,048,576
1,073,741,824
1,099,511,627,776
[snipped]
To try and sum up my point;
Everytime you step *up* using a power of 10, you lose MORE when
converting to Binary.
IMHO;
1024 * 1024 =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Dutch language has gone through spelling reform. But even so, not
all letters have single sounds, and not all sounds have single
spellings. What I have noticed, though, is that every case I've seen
in which one sound appears to have several spellings, there is
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