[Bug 431199] Re: Incorrect capacity of mounted media.

[Kent Lion]

I'm sorry, but that problem occurred almost 6 months ago on a machine I used 
while in Germany, which is not available to me here in the U.S. I still have 
the USB sticks the problem occurred with, and if I get some time, I'll see 
if I can reproduce the problem on my XUbuntu machine here.

However, in the mean time, I've used XUbuntu (and Ubuntu and Mint) enough to 
be able to say with certainty that Linux isn't nearly at a point where it 
can compete with Windows XP. Of course, if Microsoft keeps going the way 
they have with Vista, WIndows 7 and Office 2007, there may be hope for 
Linux; but historically, programmers seem to be more interested in making 
things as difficult to understand as possible than in making them as simple 
(and therefore maintainable and easy to debug) as possible. They also 
concentrate on the "market" made up of hackers and gamers  (who consider 
computers toys, not tools), instead of the market of users, particularly big 
business and government. If Microsoft doesn't go back to the Office format 
that ended with 2003, all their users are going to be forced to become 
considerably less efficient. That would be a great opportunity for Open 
Office, if Open Office could do every (useful) thing MS Office can do, but 
it can't.

Also, as long as Linux programmers think the same way Microsoft programmers 
do, they won't have a chance, because the Microsoft programmers are all 
pulling together. Linux isn't one OS, it's many versions by programmers 
making what they think is best without talking to users; and none of the 
results is free of the fundamental problems of Linux, and none is good 
enough so all the others become obsolete.

Kent Lion
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From: "Charlie Kravetz" <charlie-tca at ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 8:02 AM
To: <kent.lion at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [Bug 431199] Re: Incorrect capacity of mounted media.

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> ** Changed in: thunar (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
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> Incorrect capacity of mounted media.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431199
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> Status in “thunar” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> I attached an 8GB memory stick to XUbuntu (German - don't have an English 
> setup to try it on). When I hover the mouse arrow over the desktop icon 
> that appears, I get the following "tooltip":
> Typ: Entfernbarer Datenträger
> Einhängepunkt: /media/INTENSO
> Verfügbarer Speicherplatz: 5,2 GB (3,2 GB insgesamt) [meaning "5.2 GB (3.2 
> GB combined)"]
> This last line might say:
> Verfügbarer Speicherplatz: 5,2 GB (3,2 GB belegt) [meaning "5.2 GB (3.2 GB 
> used)"]
> ...or...
> Verfügbarer Speicherplatz: 5,2 GB (8,4 GB insgesamt) [meaning "5.2 GB (8.4 
> GB combined)"]
> ...however, I also note that when I view something on the stick in the 
> file manager, the prompt at the bottom of the window says "Free space: 4,2 
> GB", rather than 5,2...
> Note that if I attach an almost empty 128 MB SD card and reader, the 
> "tooltip" says:
> Verfügbarer Speicherplatz: 115,8 MB (120,0 MB insgesamt) [which is more or 
> less correct and agrees with the prompt at the bottom of the file manager 
> window]
> (So space calculations are not consistently correct, but the translations 
> for the file manager are also incomplete.)
>
> Description: Ubuntu 9.04
> Release: 9.04
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