From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:22:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112221826.fBMIQfSr023992@svr3.applink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16Hh1v-0003FP-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16Hh1v-0003FP-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Saturday 22 December 2001 01:57, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American
> > > President, suggested the Metric system to the French while he was
> > > ambassador there.
> >>
> >> Ewhat?!
>
> Must be a new disney movie...
OK. I guess that this seems like an "Al Gore Invented the Internet" thing
except that the system that he proposed was of his own invention (if not
the idea of basing it on ten.)
The facts are that a number of people in the scientific community had talked
about these things off and on for centuries. Thomas Jefferson is the first
recorded government official known to have made an official recommendation
for its use (again of his own derivation.) Alas, the US government was not
feeling _that_ brave yet, so they decided on an slightly altered system of
Imperial units.
As well all know, the French were fealing quite pissed off at everything
that had ever existed prior to 1789. In 1791, a very much living Louis XVI
summoned a commision to study changing the system of weights and measures.
It was during the Reign of Terror that they started making Guillotines based
on their newly fangled metre. Now, did Louis die of a new fangled
Guillotine? My French history fails me here.
This thread has become horribly off-topic.....
--
timothy.covell@ashavan.org.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-22 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-21 19:55 Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Per Jessen
[not found] ` <by>
2001-12-22 1:48 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 4:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22 4:49 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 7:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 18:22 ` Timothy Covell [this message]
2001-12-22 19:54 ` Derek Fawcus
2001-12-22 2:11 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22 4:55 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-22 7:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-22 15:56 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= J.A. Magallon
2002-01-08 21:24 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2002-01-08 21:29 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-08 22:15 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2002-01-08 23:03 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-08 22:59 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 5:29 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Ryan Cumming
2001-12-22 5:53 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 22:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in?Configure.help Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-22 10:53 ` Pekka Pietikäinen
2001-12-22 11:12 ` temperatures rpjday
2002-01-02 18:02 ` [OT] Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Jonathan Amery
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203181358540.25105-100000@router.windsormac hine.com>
2002-03-19 14:20 ` Pete Cervasio
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2002-03-18 11:31 Nayyer Tiger
2002-03-18 16:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-03-18 16:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-18 13:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-18 17:38 ` Jakob Kemi
2002-03-18 18:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-18 18:35 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-18 19:00 ` Mike Dresser
2002-03-18 19:08 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-18 19:31 ` Chris Friesen
2002-03-18 22:04 ` Mike Dresser
2002-03-18 22:12 ` Mike Dresser
2002-03-19 11:48 ` Remco Post
2002-03-18 17:04 ` Steven Cole
2001-12-23 9:18 Per Jessen
2001-12-23 16:34 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-22 23:22 Per Jessen
2001-12-23 7:21 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-23 13:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 8:39 matthew david reuther
2002-01-08 21:18 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-12-22 2:51 Thomas Hood
2001-12-21 22:55 Stuart Lynne
2001-12-21 11:44 Christian Groessler
2001-12-21 12:50 ` Rene Engelhard
2001-12-21 14:40 ` Reid Hekman
2001-12-21 14:48 ` Rene Engelhard
2001-12-26 19:04 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-21 15:48 ` Mike Jagdis
2001-12-21 16:07 ` Rene Engelhard
2001-12-21 17:43 ` Bob Glamm
2001-12-21 20:50 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-12-20 19:25 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-20 21:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-12-21 23:05 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-20 19:13 Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p Nicholas Knight
2001-12-20 19:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Mike Harrold
2001-12-21 16:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-21 17:50 ` Mike Harrold
2001-12-21 18:41 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-21 18:49 ` lk
2001-12-21 19:12 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-22 4:51 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-20 18:02 Steven Cole
2001-12-20 18:16 ` Matt Bernstein
2001-12-20 18:42 ` Randolph Bentson
2001-12-20 19:00 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-20 19:07 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-20 18:47 ` Michael Dunsky
2001-12-20 19:00 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-21 1:44 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-20 18:26 ` Robert Love
2001-12-20 18:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-20 19:32 ` Steven Cole
2001-12-20 19:37 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-20 20:40 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2001-12-20 20:32 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-12-20 21:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-20 21:14 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-12-20 21:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-20 22:49 ` Mike Eldridge
2001-12-21 10:58 ` Mike Jagdis
2001-12-26 18:59 ` Riley Williams
2002-01-02 17:17 ` Jonathan Amery
2002-01-02 20:17 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-03 4:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-03 15:46 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-24 13:39 ` Lionel Bouton
2001-12-25 11:25 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-25 20:14 ` Lionel Bouton
2001-12-20 19:49 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-22 10:24 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-22 10:47 ` Phil Howard
2001-12-22 11:30 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-22 20:18 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-23 5:39 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-24 13:21 ` Ian Molton
2001-12-22 16:03 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-23 10:43 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-23 12:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-23 16:24 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-24 12:37 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-28 10:25 ` Kai Henningsen
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