From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 21 19: 3:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (amsfep15-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C488C37B404 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:03:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hibernate.cryolabs.net ([213.132.151.88]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with SMTP id <20020222030353.PEDW25529.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@hibernate.cryolabs.net> for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 04:03:53 +0100 Received: (qmail 26405 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2002 04:03:51 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO cocaine.cryolabs.net) (192.168.196.5) by hibernate.cryolabs.net with SMTP; 22 Feb 2002 04:03:51 +0100 Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units From: Wouter Van Hemel To: Michael Lucas Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020221210110.A31216@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> <20020221034421.AE58A3E35@bazooka.trit.org> <20020221201254.A30956@blackhelicopters.org> <1014342876.177.305.camel@cocaine> <20020221210110.A31216@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 22 Feb 2002 04:03:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1014347037.178.325.camel@cocaine> Mime-Version: 1.0 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, 2002-02-22 at 03:01, Michael Lucas wrote: > 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 believe there's something wrong with your capslock) > > > I suspect that would not be productive. They're using base 2 in the > code. We know that. > Yes, we do. Base 2 it is. But I'd just like to point out here -risking my life- that the code itself might not always be consistent. But I guess _we_ shouldn't care. Point taken. > > > 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. > You don't seem to need an entity for that... :) > > Then you better do what I say, or I shall throw my almighty committer > weight around! Whuaaa ha ha ha ha! > Finally we meet the real Michael Lucas. :) > > -- > 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