Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:

>> Network speeds are generally in thousands of bits per second and
>> multiples thereof.
>>
> I don't know about you but I have never seen any network speed measured
> at anything other than the 1024 bits/bytes = 1 kilo and so on.

I believe he's talking about network devices manufacturer's (ethernet,
wifi, modem, etc), which do indeed bis Xbps. You seem to be referring
to the software interfaces and GUIs for downloads/uploads, i.e.,
applications.

regards
FF