On Sun, Oct 14, 2007, Zack Weinberg wrote:
This paragraph of NEWS, which I believe you wrote, is written very
confusingly. I cannot figure out what has been added relative to
0.36. Did MTN_MERGE=diffutils exist in 0.36?
Yes, diffutils was already present in 0.36, too.
- the
Nope, I'm not talking about small-and-fluffy anime characters (that
would be chibi, anyway), but about the de-iure-but-not-de-facto (yet :P)
standard to use correct binary prefixes also for byte, thus removing
confusion.
As it goes 1000 bytes is 1 kilobyte (1 kB)
while 1024 bytes should be called
Lapo Luchini schrieb:
would be chibi, anyway), but about the de-iure-but-not-de-facto (yet :P
As for yet: IEC 60027-2 (since 1999)
Regards,
Patrick Georgi
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:35:23 +0200, Lapo Luchini
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lapo As it goes 1000 bytes is 1 kilobyte (1 kB)
lapo while 1024 bytes should be called 1 kibibyte (1 KiB).
That's what I would call newspeak...
Cheers,
Richard
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:12:17PM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:35:23 +0200, Lapo
Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
lapo As it goes 1000 bytes is 1 kilobyte (1 kB)
lapo while 1024 bytes should be called 1 kibibyte (1 KiB).
That's what I
Patrick Georgi wrote:
Lapo Luchini schrieb:
would be chibi, anyway), but about the de-iure-but-not-de-facto (yet :P
As for yet: IEC 60027-2 (since 1999)
That's what I meant to say: standardized de iure since a long time,
but used in the wild de facto not yet very much...
But
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:00:26 -0700, Nathaniel
Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
njs On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:12:17PM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote:
njs In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:35:23 +0200, Lapo
Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
njs
njs
Hi,
Nathaniel Smith wrote:
(Why are we talking about this on monotone-devel?)
I guess because monotone shows a 'k' during netsync, which I'm
interpreting as kilobytes. I've no idea whether those are
1000 or 1024 bytes - nor do I really care that much.
Other places I've missed? Lapo?
Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
njs (Why are we talking about this on monotone-devel?)
Beats me, I'm just responding to what is said here.
Perhaps because Monotone reports byte counts in k, M and G when
the locale is unset or English? I do note that the Italian locale
says Ki, Mi
On 10/15/07, Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope, I'm not talking about small-and-fluffy anime characters (that
would be chibi, anyway), but about the de-iure-but-not-de-facto (yet :P)
standard to use correct binary prefixes also for byte, thus removing
confusion.
As it goes 1000
I noticed yesterday while updating AUTHORS that our copy of Botan is
way out of date. The newer version has some nice things in it - for
example, tuned assembly versions of SHA1 - but the catch is, you
configure the library for the target processor etc. with a Perl
script. I am not wanting to
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:09:46PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
I noticed yesterday while updating AUTHORS that our copy of Botan is
way out of date. The newer version has some nice things in it - for
example, tuned assembly versions of SHA1 - but the catch is, you
configure the library for
Zack Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, the standard you're citing only serves to
enhance confusion when the rule is perfectly simple and was understood
by everyone until the hard drive marketeers put their foot in it. 1024
bytes should be called a kilobyte, and 1000
At 2007-10-15T13:09:46-0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
I noticed yesterday while updating AUTHORS that our copy of Botan is way
out of date. The newer version has some nice things in it - for example,
tuned assembly versions of SHA1 - but the catch is, you configure the
library for the target
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I vote[0] for the new Botan, perl dependency and all.
What does vote[0] mean?
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On 10/15/07, Chad Walstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zack Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, the standard you're citing only serves to
enhance confusion when the rule is perfectly simple and was understood
by everyone until the hard drive marketeers put their foot in
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Justin Patrin wrote:
Except that noone knows what a kibibyte is except us few on this
thread. I'd never heard of such a thing until now. A standard that
isn't used isn't a standard. It is generally understood that kilobyte
means 1024 bytes. The
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