User talk:Fnagaton/Binary prefixes2
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Thanks for catching the KiB on the Adventure (2600) page. Just fixed another one on Conventional memory. Man that guy bombarded all over the place with these things. --Marty Goldberg 16:50, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
- You're very welcome. It was only luck as I was pandering to my inner (outer?) geek and reading about that old game. :) Fnagaton 19:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
- Well, looks like its starting up at the Amstrad page as well. --Marty Goldberg 19:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Latest Binary stuff
Thanks for catching the edit on my talk page. As far as his IP (217.87.99.127), it traces to a dial-up Bielfield, Germany. Most likely him again. --Marty Goldberg 06:33, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
- You are very welcome friend. I also remember sock-puppets of Sarenne using very similar dialup IPs in Germany and the editing style is also very familiar. Fnagaton 09:32, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
- Well, as you can tell by the page history he's up to his old tricks. Vandalised both of our talk pages, and tried RV'ing a few entries. New IP again. I think its going to be time to start tracking and reporting open proxies again. --Marty Goldberg 20:55, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- Yes it looks most like the same "anonymous" user, most likely the banned User:Sarenne, who is IP hopping. I'm logging all the IPs for further evidence. ;) The more IP addresses the "anonymous" user is using the easier it gets to block them at their ISP. Fnagaton 23:23, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- So far all IPs come from here:
Information related to '217.87.0.0 - 217.89.23.255'
inetnum: 217.87.0.0 - 217.89.23.255
descr: Deutsche Telekom AG
country: DE
Abuse Contact: http://www.t-com.de/ip-abuse
MOSNUM
His latest tactic appears to be individual debate on every entry he wants to push binary units in to and slowly sneak in more usage in an attempt to portray a weakened consensus. I've directed him to here and here to take it to the MOSNUM talk page. --Marty Goldberg 07:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, if the "anonymous" user wants to participate, instead of ignoring guidelines, then he will have to create a user name because anonymous users cannot alter guidelines. Fnagaton 15:02, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- And now he's still pushing to have another editor's opinion/contribution on the topic removed from Talk:MB, doing the usual "I'll read what ever I want in to guidelines" MO. --Marty Goldberg 20:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives because of false claim that 1GB = 1 billion bytes
Well the latest development that proved the MiB, GiB notation is NOT accepted by the general public can be found at a slashdot article here: [1] . The article states:
"Seagate has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleges that the company mislead customers by selling them hard disk drives with less capacity than the company advertised. The suit states that Seagate's use of the decimal definition of the storage capacity term "gigabyte" was misleading and inaccurate: whereby 1GB = 1 billion bytes. In actuality, 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes — a difference of approximately 7% from Seagate's figures. Seagate is saying it will offer a cash refund or free backup and recovery software."
That should put to rest the seemingly still lingering notion that wikipedia should adapt the SI notations KiB MiB and that consequently the original notation of KB MB etc. should be converted to reflect decimal sizes such as 1000, 1000.000 etc. Mahjongg 11:34, 2 November 2007 (UTC)