On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
>> Because then we wouldn't be able to use a flash drive/card bigger
>> than 2.88 MB.
>>
>> (I think 2.88 MB is the biggest floppy disk size defined by IBM-PC
>> conventions. But if there are others, they're around that size.)
>
> Wh
Ben Scott writes:
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> wrote:
> >> Flash drives wouldn't work as floppies, so they're treated as fixed
> >> disks.
> >
> > What does this mean? Why wouldn't USB sticks or MMC/SD cards work
> > `as floppies'?
>
> Because then we wouldn't be
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:34 PM, M D L <41mag...@liberty.eprci.com> wrote:
> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> libibus-1.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by ibus-hangul-1.4.0-1.fc15.x86_64
> Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report
> Package ibus-libs-1.4.0-11.fc15.x86_64 already
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
>> Flash drives wouldn't work as floppies, so they're treated as fixed
>> disks.
>
> What does this mean? Why wouldn't USB sticks or MMC/SD cards work
> `as floppies'?
Because then we wouldn't be able to use a flash drive/card bigger
t
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 16:34 -0500, michael miller wrote:
> The number of columns on a hollerith card. Why are there 80 columns on
> a hollerith card?
Well, actually there were many different size "Hollerith cards", and
there were at least two sizes of "IBM cards", the familiar 80-column
card, and
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:50 -0500, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> > Next up: Why are console windows traditionally 80 columns wide?
> >
> Because of the size of the US Dollar.
The 1887 US Dollar.
>
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Ben Scott writes:
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> wrote:
> > I've always wondered: why do the little USB flash sticks,
> > SD cards, etc. all include a partition-table with one
> > partition? Why don't they just use whole-device filesystems?
>
> Because they're not
The number of columns on a hollerith card. Why are there 80 columns on
a hollerith card?
Mike
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:38 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> wrote:
> > I've always wondered: why do the little USB flash sticks,
> > SD cards, etc. all
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> Next up: Why are console windows traditionally 80 columns wide?
>
Because of the size of the US Dollar.
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
> I've always wondered: why do the little USB flash sticks,
> SD cards, etc. all include a partition-table with one
> partition? Why don't they just use whole-device filesystems?
Because they're not floppy disks, and fixed disks are a
Ben Scott writes:
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Michael ODonnell
> wrote:
> > most filesystems do normally reside on partitions
> > but that's not actually inherent in the design of the system ...
>
> Not inherent in the design of *nix systems, certainly. Or computers
> in general. B
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