Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

[Stephan Hermann]

Moins,

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:38:31 +0100
Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:

> Op woensdag 25-03-2009 om 16:19 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Scott
> James Remnant:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:26 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > > This assumes you buy into the SI's naming scheme and can say
> > > things like "kibibyte" and "tebibyte" without bursting into
> > > giggles or groaning in despair :-)
> 
> > It isn't SI, it's IEEE
> 
> I think it's IEEE, CIE & ISO now (although I can't be sure about ISO
> as it's not freely available, but IIRC there is something mentioned
> in the table of contents that is publicly available on some national
> standards organisations sites).

TBH, I just bursted into a laugh attack....for easyiness: 500 Gigabytes
as written on a Harddrive label are not the same as 500 Gigabytes
transfered over the Network (when you know HD vendor definition: kilo ==
1000 and Network vendor definition normally kilo == 1024)

Check for yourself...and be frustrated of different "standards" (which
makes be lol again now ;))

Regards,

\sh

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