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You sure you don't mean 4.3 GiB? 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: You sure you don't mean 4.3 GiB?
An abbreviation that requires two letters is tolerable, one that (like kibi) require 4 is ridiculous.
And no, like many new fangled things, I refuse to adopt them and let them live in my house. 
Marc
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I guess that means we've both made it to the old men's club, because I agree. Such a nice place.
Jeremy Falcon
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Marc Clifton wrote: one that (like kibi) require 4 is ridiculous.
Like abbrev. 
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Sure makes one feel small and insignificant.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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What? You only have a 200MB HDD Mike?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I can see the small part, but how insignificant? Did the interstellar medium made anything like you did?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Marc Clifton wrote: If you have 4.3GB lying around...
Uh oh... FAT32 won't cut it then. 
/ravi
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Cutting the FAT is probably a good thing Ravi!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I have a lot of it to cut.
/ravi
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I was thinking from the food, but I can see how it could be read that way. My apologies! 
... and you don't look too bad for an old fart. Me, on the other hand!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: you don't look too bad for an old fart.
Ha! Thank God for Photoshop. 
/ravi
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Maybe a case for command line and then: Move *.* null.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Were you the one asking about drones for inspecting power lines? I found another site... See here[^]
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I wonder if the situation for viewing crazy huge images on Windows has improved in the last decade.
About 10 years ago I downloaded a 400 megapixel mosaic from the HST team. At the time I discovered that 99% of Windows image viewers used the naïve approach of trying to allocate a single buffer big enough to decompress the entire thing all at once and then crashed with an OOM error (when the slammed into the 2gb limit for 32bit processes). The only exceptions I found were Adobe (reported by a few people who tried it to actually have reasonable performance working with the monster) and some freeware GIS viewer someone here recommended (worked but awful usability). Gimp for Linux32 worked; but the Windows version faceplanted like every other normal image viewer I tried.
At 1.5 gigapixels; that image is probably going to take 6GB to decompress. (More if the viewer creates a few pre-zoomed versions to make zooming in/out less painful.)
In the interest of abusing my toys I'll have to try it when I get home. Hopefully a box with 18GB of ram will save me from having to go to swap. 
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Dan Neely wrote: In the interest of abusing my toys I'll have to try it when I get home.
I'm fascinated to hear about the results!
Marc
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Maybe I'm old school, and I know the reasoning behind the these fancy prefixes for measuring data, BUT is anyone else still using KB to mean a binary kilobyte and kB to mean a decimal kilobyte like we had back in the day before KiB came along with its fancy newfangled Kibi prefix?
Jeremy Falcon
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As all the byte-thing is computer connected (for me at least), also KB...so K in that connection is 1024 and never used no kB or KiB (even heard of them)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: even heard of them
Hell yeah man, we got KB, kB, kb, Kb, etc.
Reminds me of 1337 sPeAk n0w th4T 1 th1Nk 4b0Ut 1t.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yes, I do. KB = 1024 bytes. Absolutely immutable fact and I care not what anyone says. 1000 bytes is a completely irrelevant arbitrary number.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I totally agree with you there, but you know how it goes... most people really don't have a concept of binary. HDD marketers aren't helping with that, so we still got the normal crowd to contend with. So, even though I'd not really use kB it's nice to know it's there. Kinda like Kb for kilobit. But this whole Kibi crap seems, well... like just repainting the wheel.
Jeremy Falcon
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Personally, I preferred the days before the filthy masses all had computers. KB=1000 bytes and bloody facebook. How has this progressed things?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: bloody facebook. How has this progressed things?
You are preaching to the choir man. As much as I enjoy tech, in the hands of the average person that doesn't exercise their mind, it seems to be dumbing us down way too much. I've seen people walk into walls because they were too busy starting at their phones.
Jeremy Falcon
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I would agree with that (and in fact a few years back I did agree with it), if it weren't for the small fact that computer usage is now abstracted so many times away from binary data storage concepts.
Nowadays, unless your work specifically involves fine-detailed storage of data, the ol' binary stuff is about as relevant as the Newton and Newton metre are to people who drive over bridges, as opposed to the engineers who design them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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