Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

[Jan Claeys]

Op donderdag 26-03-2009 om 08:13 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Stephan
Hermann:
> 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)

As said in another mail: (most?) network device vendors use kilo = 1000.

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

The fact that (some) vendors don't follow standards doesn't mean they
aren't useful.  It just means they should be enforced better.


We don't want to go back to the time when an "inch" (or a "zoll" in
German) meant something different in every other village, don't we?


-- 
Jan Claeys