Comments on: Oddly enough, ‘Five gets it right

By: Create large files of random information « Motho ke motho ka botho

Create large files of random information « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:34:36 +0000

[...] wanted to test that mischevious hard drive, to avoid problems when I move stuff on to [...]

By: imgx64

imgx64 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:55:14 +0000

Not only that, he also used Gb, which means Gigabit, not Gigabyte.

To be honest, I rarely use GiB/Gibibyte myself, most people (both non-technical and technical-minded) look at me in a funny way .

By: A little more information « Motho ke motho ka botho

A little more information « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:42:39 +0000

[...] K.Mandla’s blog of Linux experiences BlogAboutHowtosHardwareSoftwareProjects « Oddly enough, ‘Five gets it right [...]

By: Chubby Checker

Chubby Checker — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:06:42 +0000

I’m perfectly fine with 64kB==65536 bytes =)

By: Dieter_be

Dieter_be — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:16:32 +0000

Either way.. http://www.stopabusingsiprefixes.org/

By: anon

anon — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:45:26 +0000

My guess was the new IDE drivers of squeeze. FYI, a backports lenny install will actually use the same kernel as squeeze, thus exposing it’s idosyncrancies such as renamed hdxx to sdxx.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:14:52 +0000

no, “la quinta” is the female version of “the fifth”. and it is not “debian fifth”, it is “debian five”, therefore, “debian cinco” is fine.

By: Frostyfrog

Frostyfrog — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:49:30 +0000

I’ve been following for quite a while and this will be my first comment. Yay! =D

Anyways, could it be that Debian 5 has a lower version of the kernel (or something low like that). Just a hunch, but that could be the reason.

By: Kismet

Kismet — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:24:15 +0000

“La quinta”