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More or less accidentially, I dist-upgraded LMDE to find GNOME3 which I until now avoided (like Unity, for that matter).

Oh, I wish I had switched on my brain before upgrading.

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Comment: Re:bits or bytes (Score 1) 367

by foobsr (#38682816) Attached to: Approximately how speedy is your Internet connection?

Never bytes.

(wikipedia): "Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer. ... The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no definitive standards exist that mandate the size."

Thus, the size of a 'byte' is rather ill-defined.

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Comment: Re:Furniture (Score 1) 312

by foobsr (#38427188) Attached to: Smallest space my belongings could fit (unbroken):

Actually, around where I live lakes & bodies of water are still measured in acre-feet.

Not that that would necessarily be Wyoming, Mississippi or Utah (which was my first admittedly biased guess). See:

"An energy intensive part of the California water project is pumping water to an elevation of 2000 feet to cross
the Tehachapi Mountains near Los Angeles.
Assume that an average household in Southern California uses 0.5 acre-foot of water per year,
0.5 acre = 21780 ft
0.5 acre-foot = 21,780 cubic feet.
Cubic feet and gallon are imperial volume units.
1 Cubic Foot = 7.48051948 Gallons [US, Fluid]
21,780 cubic feet = 2911.5625 Gallons."

(from Yahoo! Answers?)

Mind-blowing indeed, time to shift the bias.

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