There have been a few reports in the past about problems with Transmission. Hasn't happened recently, though, maybe a few months ago. Let's see how you turn out.
How long ago did you use KTorrent? I think updates that came with Ubuntu 10.04 fixed a lot of problems it was having.
More than 2 years. But i don't use ubuntu, and i want to stick with kde 3.5. So i must verify that the "new" ktorrent don't use kde4 library.
Dunno, the convention is b for bits and B for bytes,
The convention ... in U.S.
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and it's quite common knowledge that a byte is 8 bits. Never heard of the 9 bit convention, which doesn't even make sense because the computing field uses powers of 2... Is that even a convention that exists or existed, or did you just make that up?
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It's not a convention, it's a use.
In the beginning of computeur science There was plenty of type of processor, even some tri state soviets developped long ago.
Byte existed with 7,8,9 and other more exotic number of bits (see wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BytesHistorically, a byte was the number of bits (typically 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, or 16) used to encode a single character of text in a computer[1][2] and it is for this reason the basic addressable element in many computer architectures. The size of a byte is typically hardware dependent, but the modern de facto standard is eight bits, as this is a convenient power of two.
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Saying "Mo" will get at least 80% of people wondering, and even if you say "octet" only a few more of them will figure out what you mean.
Of U.S. people. I'm not sure that other country forcibly use Bytes or doesn't know what an octet is.
And if i wand to be a strict scientific, I would even use Mi/Gi and not M/G
Also, "millibytes" also doesn't make sense with respect to physical space.
Yes, but I have already see a "mb" or a "mB" to speak about Mb, or MB.
You either have a bit or you don't.
Well, in a quantical world, it's not so simple
So for "today" computer, yes. For "next tommorow", not so sure.
Ok it's really not what we speak here
In other words, storage space in the computing world is technically discrete. This is why people usually associate mB as megabytes, regardless of letter casing of the M. Likewise, mb would be megabits, though some n00bs like to use mb for megabytes (which is probably your main point).
Anyway, main point of that was, most people who see "1mb" or "1mB" would assume megabits or megabytes, not milli, because it simply makes no sense the other way.
Even if I could understand :
if I see 1 mB : how can i be sure that it must be read 1MB, and not 1Mb ? After all the person who wrote this could have done 2 error of capitalization.
And more important,
1 Mb <=> 1000 bits
1 MB <=> 1024 Bytes. (and should be write 1MiB :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix)
So it's really not the same thing!
