Testmail

2004-12-23 Thread Dennis
This is a testmail concerning filtering. Please don´t take care of it.

wget exploit

2004-12-23 Thread Kevin Smith
http://www.milw0rm.com/id.php?id=689 http://www.k-otik.com/exploits/20041216.wgettrap.pl.php

Re: Delivery_failure_notice 3003

2004-12-23 Thread webmaster
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Content-Type: text/plain The original email was deleted because it contained the virus Sober.I

bug while handling big files

2004-12-23 Thread Simone Bastianello
Hello. I was retrieving this iso: ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/ISO-images/Slackware/Current-ISO-build/slackware-10.0-DVD.iso I killed wget and then I resumed it with wget -c (file was downlaoded for 2285260288 bytes) here's the output: --19:31:47--

Metric units

2004-12-23 Thread John J Foerch
Hi, I read in the list archives some discussion from 2002 of changing the units that wget uses in its output. I too would very much like to see in the next version either metric units (K=10^3, M=10^6) or the EIC binary system (Ki=2^10, Mi=2^20). It seems that the system of using the metric

RE: Metric units

2004-12-23 Thread Tony Lewis
John J Foerch wrote: It seems that the system of using the metric prefixes for numbers 2^n is a simple accident of history. Any thoughts on this? I would say that the practice of using powers of 10 for K and M is a response to people who cannot think in binary. Tony

Re: Metric units

2004-12-23 Thread Carlos Villegas
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:57:18PM -0800, Tony Lewis wrote: John J Foerch wrote: It seems that the system of using the metric prefixes for numbers 2^n is a simple accident of history. Any thoughts on this? I would say that the practice of using powers of 10 for K and M is a response to

RE: Metric units

2004-12-23 Thread Tony Lewis
Carlos Villegas snidely wrote: I would say that the original poster understands what he is saying, and you clearly don't... I'll put my computer science degree up against your business administration and accounting degree any day. A kilobyte has always been 1024 bytes and the choice was not

RE: Metric units

2004-12-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Yeah, you're both right. While we're at it, why don't we just round off the value of pi to be 3.0. Those pesky trailing decimals are just an accident of history anyway. -Original Message- From: Carlos Villegas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:22 PM To:

RE: Metric units

2004-12-23 Thread Tony Lewis
Mark Post wrote: While we're at it, why don't we just round off the value of pi to be 3.0 Do you live in Indiana? Actually, Dr. Edwin Goodwin wanted to round off pi to any of several values including 3.2. http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/Localgov/Second%20Level%20pages/Indiana_Pi_ Story.htm

RE: Metric units

2004-12-23 Thread Post, Mark K
No, but that particular bit of idiocy was the inspiration for my comment. I just took it one decimal point further. -Original Message- From: Tony Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 2:22 AM To: wget@sunsite.dk Subject: RE: Metric units Mark Post wrote: