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In short, 1KiB is 1024 bytes. 1KB is 1000 bytes. Therefore, 50 KiB is greater than 50KB. Manufacturers use the decimal prefix because they can call a 260GiB drive a 300GB one, for marketing reasons.

Sounds like one the sticks of memory is damaged, this would be due to the new stick that you've installed, or you may have accidentally damaged the other one while installing it if you haven't taken adequate anti-static precautions. To enter the BIOS, you usually have to press a key like Del...

I have to apologise to everyone for this, our BBC in the UK is sometimes liable to publish stuff like this. Wish RMS would shut up, it's embarrassing for the FOSS movement to be associated with him.

Kekoa is right, it's unrelated to the formatting of the disk. Technically when Windows displays a file size, it should say KiB, MiB etc rather than KB, MB. Can be quite confusing, especially since Mb isn't megabyte but megabit.

Happy birthday guys. :beer: Noincidence with same birthdays. Seems to happen a lot with us on HWF.

Have to say I'm surprised with the amount of programs that run almost flawlessly under wine. Some features which you wouldn't think wine would be able to emulate work fine. Recently I installed express scribe in linux, since I have a part time job as a transcriber. It installed and had full...

wget -c will do for me with most long downloads. kget if I ever need more features. I like Opera, it's fast, nice UI, nothing really wrong with it. I just can't seem to use it instead of Firefox. Doesn't have the customisation options like Firefox does. If anyone's used the Clucene addon...

All film producers, script writers and studios should fear the influence of a certain Mr Wadge. It is not wise to take on a bull without a rag.

It's beginning to happen over here as well. Frustrating since more and more media is available through the internet, do they expect people not to use these services when they have paid for their internet access? What's more annoying is that in an ever-continuing struggle to get more...

WINNT is the directory where windows itself is installed. It's unusual that it's taking up that much space, you may want to look add/remove programs and order by size, to see if there are any specific programs that are huge. If not, then it may be just a case of finding the specific directory...

It's difficult to explain this if you don't have a grounding in PHP, but if you think about it carefully you'll see what I mean. You can implement this system with a database or without, using an SQL database means you'll have to input the file details of your existing files when you set up the...

Yes I've noticed that too, I'm running it on the latest Ubuntu hardy. I really like it so far, especially the awesomebar and the download manager has been improved. Still not as good as the opera one, but much closer anyway. Also love the search for addons feature, I'm quite lazy and don't...

Oh dear lord.

You've not given enough information on what files you're editing or what you're even doing, please be more thorough in future. Now it seems you're editing a Makefile, $PREFIX is a variable.

Your keyboard is set to US layout, there should have been a section in the setup wizard allowing you to choose the keymap when you installed windows. Check in the control panel for the keyboard setup, or it might be under locales or something similar to set it to UK.

gcc is available for mac, you can compile it yourself quite easily actually. Hard to say which license ultimately allows the most freedom. The licence using copyleft to impose restricions to allow freedom, or the one which allows all freedom anyway.

Probably a faulty battery, if it's old then even more likely. You're not going to be able to save it in all honesty, so better off just buying a new one.

Not all applications can be compiled for any architecture though. There may be cases where certain programs/libraries can only be built for certain architectures, since there's no guarantee that it's portable.

Not sure if this is related, but FAT32 doesn't support files over 4GB.

BASH also. I'm not that great with shell scripts at all, haven't really learned much but even knowing a little bit can make automating tasks much easier.