From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Mar 16 20:29:15 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D603DD0F3B8 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:29:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61A51340 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:29:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 07641CB8C9A; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:29:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:29:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <15959.128.135.52.6.1489696154.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20170316211304.1c3481cc@archlinux.localdomain> References: <20170316194612.GA1748@c720-r314251> <33953.128.135.52.6.1489694167.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20170316211304.1c3481cc@archlinux.localdomain> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:29:14 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: bootable ext. USB SSD for backup From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "Ralf Mardorf" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:29:15 -0000 On Thu, March 16, 2017 3:13 pm, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:56:07 -0500 (CDT), Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>Junior programmer faithfully thinks that one kilobyte is exactly 1000 >>bytes. >> >>Senior programmer faithfully thinks that one kilogram is exactly 1024 >>grams. > > When I programmed Commodore 64 Assembler a KB was 1024 B, nowadays I > call it a KiB, to distinguish between 2^10 and 10^3, see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte . > > I dislike this joke, since senior programmers usually are also senior > electronics technicians, Right, I've heard the joke in a different language, so I had to make up some equivalent for "computer geek" and otherwise person. Sysadmin doesn't fit there too as,e.g. myself, I have two degrees: electical engineering and computer science, so megaohms, and kilovolts are kind of there. So, I don't know what to call the person so torn off the real life (as I heard the joke in metric based country, where "kilo-" is used everywhere). The best way to proof the joke didn't work is when one has to explain it ;-) Sorry for sour time everybody ;-( Valeri > so while not necessarily aware of the kg unit, > at least well aware of the kΩ unit :p. > > Regards, > Ralf > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++