On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 06:44:30PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
[...]
> Baloney [...]
"Baloney" == "things I don't like"
(FWIW I'd prefer binaries in the computer context, but hey).
Human communication is messy. Both multipliers come from different
sources which were well established at the mom
On Thu 09 Jan 2025 at 02:29:37 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM Stefan Monnier
> wrote:
> >
> > > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name
> > > only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable
> > > space.
> >
>
On Fri 03 Jan 2025 at 10:54:21 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> Heh. I remember a 300 baud modem where you had to dial the number on a phone
> and then flip the switch on the modem when the other end answered. Whether
> you selected the answer or originate mode was a crap shoot, there we
On Tue 07 Jan 2025 at 21:00:39 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote:
> Kushal Kumaran (12025-01-07):
> > I point people to http://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html which is where I
> > was first enlightened.
>
> Mostly something anybody should learn in junior high school physics,
> freshman high-school at wors
On Fri 10 Jan 2025 at 02:46:13 (+0100), Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Michael Stone writes:
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > >Mr. Tarsnap forgets something. The reason disks are addressed in powers
> > >of two has to do with mathematics. Every hard and floppy disk o
On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 02:46:13AM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote:
For example, my computers had 5.12 kB,
65.356 kB, 16.777216 MB, 67.108864 MB, 268.435456 MB, 1.073741824 GB,
and 8.589934592 GB of RAM. Perfectly correct, but I prefer to say
they had 5 kiB, 64 kiB, 16 MiB, 64 MiB, 256 MiB, 1 GiB, an
On 09/01/2025 21:15, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Moral of the story: NEVER EVER run "wpctl".
My guess is that it may be a consequence of "wireplumber" you executed
earlier. Having no notion what particular components of pipewire/pulse
do, I would avoid running random commands supposed to be started
Michael Stone writes:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> >Mr. Tarsnap forgets something. The reason disks are addressed in powers
> >of two has to do with mathematics. Every hard and floppy disk out there
> >has flaws. To get around that, data is divided into sect
On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> >For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units
> >are much more convenient, not just to measure the size of memory
> >modules: alignment requirements, m
Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 07:39:29 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
I have pipewire-pulse intstalled, not puleaudio.
Maybe change that?
hobbit:~$ dpkg -l | grep pulse
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd6416.1+dfsg1-2+b1amd64
PulseAudio client libraries
I agree it is important, may be a precision on the more general idea is
helpful:
"Communication of numbers between ordinary people generally happens in base
10."
It turns out that the diversity of the notion of numerosity among *homo
sapiens* is way far richer than the base-10. See
https://wals.in
On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM Michael Stone wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> >For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units
> >are much more convenient, not just to measure the size of memory
> >modules: alignment requirements,
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units
are much more convenient, not just to measure the size of memory
modules: alignment requirements, maximum sizes of files and devices,
size of stripes, they are al
Michael Stone (12025-01-08):
> For example...let's take the 18B drive discussed earlier. That's
> 18TB or 16TiB. Annoying, but ok. Now that's also 18000MB but 16763MiB. And
> it's 1800MB or 17166137MiB. So if you have a display in MB and you want
> to know the value in TB you move t
Hej,
Am Sonntag, 29. Dezember 2024, 04:21:57 MEZ schrieb Christopher Andrews:
> I am unsure exactly what package to file this bug against, so per the
> recommendation I am sending to this list. I suspect this should be
> filed against libqt6gui6.
>
> I run debian/unstable, and my system somehow g
On Jan 09, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > For example...let's take the 18B drive discussed earlier. That's
> > 18TB or 16TiB. Annoying, but ok. Now that's also 18000MB but 16763MiB. And
> > it's 1800MB or 17166137MiB. So if you have a display in MB and you want
> > to know the valu
> For example...let's take the 18B drive discussed earlier. That's
> 18TB or 16TiB. Annoying, but ok. Now that's also 18000MB but 16763MiB. And
> it's 1800MB or 17166137MiB. So if you have a display in MB and you want
> to know the value in TB you move the decimal 6 places. But if y
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2025 at 9:15 AM
> From: "Greg Wooledge"
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: getting started with pipewire
>
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:00:24 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > $ wpctl status
> > > Could not connect to PipeWire
> >
> > hobbit:~$
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:15:16AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:00:24 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > $ wpctl status
> > > Could not connect to PipeWire
> >
> > hobbit:~$ wpctl status
[...]
> I tried everything I could immediately think of, including logging out
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:00:24 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > $ wpctl status
> > Could not connect to PipeWire
>
> hobbit:~$ wpctl status
> ^C
>
> It just "hung" with no output.
>
> After I pressed Ctrl-C, my audio stopped working. I'm never going
> to do this one again!
>
> > # syste
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 07:39:29 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> I have pipewire-pulse intstalled, not puleaudio.
Maybe change that?
hobbit:~$ dpkg -l | grep pulse
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd6416.1+dfsg1-2+b1amd64
PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii li
Now I get these lines from systemctl --user status pipewire.service
Jan 02 09:39:26 iskra systemd[1518]: Started pipewire.service -
PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Jan 07 11:14:49 iskra pipewire[1534]: spa.alsa: 'front:0':
playback open failed: Device or resource busy
Jan 07 1
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