On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:20:24PM -0700, Bob Scofield wrote: > On Sunday 08 May 2005 17:47, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > I'd bring along Knoppix and try the following: > > Okay, I'm practicing this stuff on my computer so that I'll be able to do it > on my sister's computer. > > > > - What's the CPU speed? /proc/cpuinfo. > > When I do this with Knoppix I get "permission denied." If I type "su" and > hit return I go back to the original prompt, and when I retry /proc/cpuinfo > I get the same error message.
Oh, /proc/cpuinfo is a file. In this case, you can examine its contents. e.g.: cat /proc/cpuinfo > I assume that your "MiB/s" is the same as MB/sec, right? I'm getting 50.99 > MB/sec on my computer. Close enough. :^) Technically a KiB is 1024 bytes, and a MiB is 1024*1024 bytes (or 1,048,576), whereas a KB is only 1000, and a MB is only 1,000,000. But, historically, people called things that came in 1024's KB, MB, GB, etc., and only recently did people start getting anal about it. (Or, at least, I only noticed that in the past few years. :^) ) HDD manufacturers get away with selling 100GB drives that are only capable of holding 100,000,000,000 bytes, since _technically_ that's how many a GB is. But most of us still look at labels like GB and MB and think in terms of 1024, and wonder why our HDD has 73,741,824 bytes missing. ;^) -- -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://newbreedsoftware.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
