On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:45:00 +0200 FORT Yannick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Hello everyone; it's my first mail on this list ;)
I've been in the computer world for a long time now - 20 years or so. and KB =
kilobyte = 1024 bytes. MB = megabyte = 1024x1024 bytes. ie power of 2's always
for memor
I have a proposition:
Why not make it a configurable option? That way everyone will be happy. yay!!
Long live the freedom of choise!
Daniel
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On Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 19:00:11 (+0200),
Martin Geisler wrote:
> I guess it comes down to personal preferrence then... I like the
> idea of having prefixes with a fixed meaning: M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20,
> always.
If something more reasonable comes along, I might reconsider. But
saying "Kiba-
Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If we allow learning curve to dictate our modus operandi, why aren't
> we all using MacOS and an iMac?
:-)
I guess it comes down to personal preferrence then... I like the idea
of having prefixes with a fixed meaning: M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, always.
I
Learning something in school in France does not make it a standard.
And saying somebody MUST use something in HIS OWN program is just
inappropriate. If you want a version with MiB, you can patch the
sources :)
On 7/21/05, FORT Yannick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone; it's my first mail
On Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 18:45:00 (+0200),
FORT Yannick wrote:
> I really think the MiB standard MUST be used, if you don't respect
> standards, you surely want people to use .doc, .xls for office use,
> MSN as a chat protocol, THIS is stupid ...
Your conclusion is not supported by your stat
Hello everyone; it's my first mail on this list ;)
I really think the MiB standard MUST be used, if you don't respect
standards, you surely want people to use .doc, .xls for office use, MSN
as a chat protocol, THIS is stupid ...
When i read MiB, i'm sure it's 1024*1024 B, but when i read MB,
On Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 15:50:20 (+0200),
Martin Geisler wrote:
> Well, reading through the Usage Notes section on Wikipedia is
> interesting. We're dealing with bytes in all six cases, but there are
> differences:
>
> * A MB of RAM is 1024 * 1024 bytes.
Agreed.
> * A MB on a harddisk is
Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 11:59:54 (+0200),
> Martin Geisler wrote:
>
>> Would you consider changing the texts to reflect the IEC standard of
>> KiB for 1024 bytes, MiB for 1024 KiB, and GiB for 1024 MiB?
>
> Boy I hope not. Such nonsense has no
On Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 15:22:14 (+0200),
Jackob McRose wrote:
> Well, it IS a nonsense, but everyone already get used for 1024
> multiplies, I think it is a bit too late for changing this. Only
> effect will be more clueless people.
Resistance is NOT futile. You do not have to be assimila
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:00:55 -0400
Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 11:59:54 (+0200),
> Martin Geisler wrote:
>
> > Would you consider changing the texts to reflect the IEC standard of
> > KiB for 1024 bytes, MiB for 1024 KiB, and GiB for 1024 MiB?
>
>
On Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 11:59:54 (+0200),
Martin Geisler wrote:
> Would you consider changing the texts to reflect the IEC standard of
> KiB for 1024 bytes, MiB for 1024 KiB, and GiB for 1024 MiB?
Boy I hope not. Such nonsense has no place in Enlightened software.
> I think it makes thing
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:27:51 -0600
Tres Melton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 11:07 +0200, gimpel wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:42:51 +0200
> > gimpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Oh heh. BUG BUG!
> > > It currently still shows KB in memory module where it
> > > sh
gimpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:42:51 +0200
> gimpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Oh heh. BUG BUG!
>> It currently still shows KB in memory module where it
>> should be MB :)
>>
>> cheers!
>
> To answer myself
> i edited the mem_swap_get() and mem_real_get()
>
On Thu, July 21, 2005 3:42 am, gimpel said:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:33:00 +0200
> gimpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Oh heh. BUG BUG!
> It currently still shows KB in memory module where it
> should be MB :)
>
> cheers!
>
heh, oops. That's what I get for excessive copy/paste. I'm about to f
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:42:51 +0200
gimpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh heh. BUG BUG!
> It currently still shows KB in memory module where it
> should be MB :)
>
> cheers!
To answer myself
i edited the mem_swap_get() and mem_real_get()
stuff in e_mod_main.c line 488ff : MB to GB, KB to MB
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:33:00 +0200
gimpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:52:57 -0500 (CDT)
> "Edward Presutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Please disregard that first patch I sent out earlier. This one is an
> > updated version. It has been tested against current an
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:52:57 -0500 (CDT)
"Edward Presutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Please disregard that first patch I sent out earlier. This one is an
> updated version. It has been tested against current anon-CVS as of
> 19:40 CST.
>
> This patch has configuration save/load as well as t
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