From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 21 18: 1:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD35E37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1M21AJ31244; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:01:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:01:10 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Wouter Van Hemel Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units Message-ID: <20020221210110.A31216@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> <20020221034421.AE58A3E35@bazooka.trit.org> <20020221201254.A30956@blackhelicopters.org> <1014342876.177.305.camel@cocaine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1014342876.177.305.camel@cocaine>; from wouter@pair.com on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:54:36AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:54:36AM +0100, Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 02:12, Michael Lucas wrote: > Everybody agrees with that, I guess. The question is: which? Maybe we > should send this bomb to -hackers too... NO! IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT'S DECENT AND GOOD -- I suspect that would not be productive. They're using base 2 in the code. We know that. > > We need standard symbols for this, preferably entities. > > > > Uhm... Do we plan on changing our _units_ weekly or so... No, but using an entity helps enforce the standard. Basically, it says, "This bikeshed is now painted. Now shut up." > > Blue. With green poka-dots. Or I torch the whole shed to the ground > > and salt the earth it stood upon. > > But where will I live then... Then you better do what I say, or I shall throw my almighty committer weight around! Whuaaa ha ha ha ha! -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message