From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
To: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 03:14:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711040314.36668.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071104014930.GA27392@old.davidb.org>
söndag 04 november 2007 skrev David Brown:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 06:03:14PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> >I wonder if 700MB CD-ROM and 4.7GB DVD-R are also in decimal
> >bytes. I am too lazy to check ;-)
>
> Of course. A certain magneto optical manufacturer created a 605MB drive,
> which they marked as 640MB, trying to make it sound like it had the same
> capacity as a CD. Even with 1,000 bytes 634,388,480 is quite a stretch to
> call 640MB. I never found the footnote "____ defines megabyte to be 991232
> bytes".
They may have used the term "unformatted" capacity.
-- robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-04 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-03 5:32 [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-03 5:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-03 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-03 20:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-03 20:40 ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 20:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-03 21:03 ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 21:46 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-03 22:02 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-03 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-03 23:31 ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-04 0:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-04 1:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-04 1:49 ` David Brown
2007-11-04 2:14 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]
2007-11-03 22:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-04 9:56 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-04 4:58 ` Jeff King
2007-11-04 13:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-04 14:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
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