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arabcian
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 Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:11 am Post subject: where to put this LOL |
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today i saw something after i gave emerge -eav system command
Checking for at least 621 mebibytes disk space at "/var/tmp/portage/games-rpg/arx-fatalis-data-1.21-r1/temp"
do someone know what mebibytes means? |
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Jaglover
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helpen
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The footnote is the perfect answer  |
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aCOSwt
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| helpen wrote: | | The footnote is the perfect answer |
| The footnote wrote: | | It is important to recognize that the new prefixes for binary multiples are not part of the International System of Units (SI), the modern metric system. |
I make no doubt that a few would still consider it baroque while the vast majority would opt for classical.
I would have preferred pré-avant-gardiste.
Of course romantic is the only wrong qualifier.
I seriously consider that the NIST should refrain from publishing taste judgments. 
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khayyam
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| aCOSwt wrote: | | I seriously consider that the NIST should refrain from publishing taste judgments. |
aCOSwt ... indeed, and wasn't the "modern metric system" abolished by décret impérial, 22 Fructidor, An XIII .. ;)
best ... khay |
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