
Just came across "System 76", a US company based in Denver, Colorado, that sells laptops/desktops/servers pre-installed with Ubuntu: http://www.system76.com/ The company was mentioned in this slashdot article: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/221245/ask-slashdot-gnulinux-laptop... Since they also ship to NZ, I thought some people on this list might be interested... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

Looks quite cool. Did you get an idea of what shipping would be? On 25 October 2011 14:50, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
Just came across "System 76", a US company based in Denver, Colorado, that sells laptops/desktops/servers pre-installed with Ubuntu: http://www.system76.com/
The company was mentioned in this slashdot article:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/221245/ask-slashdot-gnulinux-laptop...
Since they also ship to NZ, I thought some people on this list might be interested...
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Did you get an idea of what shipping would be?
They ship with UPS. In other words, you'll get charged an arm and a leg, I'd say. I did a quick calculation on the UPS website for a 10kg World Express parcel from Denver to Hamilton, filled with 10 and 20 lbs and ranging from 1000 to 2000 USD value. The cost was 260 - 280 USD. But it might be different (read: cheaper) if you go through System 76's website. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

Is it just me, or has Oneiric decided that it's going to display file sizes in Nautilus as 'decimal' rather than 'binary'? For example, a file that was 348MB before the upgrade is now 365MB. Working the numbers out, I've figured out that it's now using (bytes / 1,000,000) rather than (bytes / 1,048,576). I'm rather annoyed at this. I'm used to drive capacity being shown in base 10 units, but not files. Has anybody else noticed this, and is there a way to get it back to the old 'binary' system? Sandy

Is it just me, or has Oneiric decided that it's going to display file sizes in Nautilus as 'decimal' rather than 'binary'? For example, a file that was 348MB before the upgrade is now 365MB. Working the numbers out, I've figured out that it's now using (bytes / 1,000,000) rather than (bytes / 1,048,576).
I'm rather annoyed at this. I'm used to drive capacity being shown in base 10 units, but not files. Has anybody else noticed this, and is there a way to get it back to the old 'binary' system?
MB is a base 10 unit though, not a base 2 unit. Anything that considers 1048576 Bytes = 1 MB is incorrect. On the other hand, there is a correct unit prefix, eg Mi, which denotes a binary based system. 1MiB = 1048576 bytes. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_prefix and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix ) Ubuntu's policy on this is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy Unfortunately, I couldn't see any way to change the units in nautilus. Ubuntu's policy suggests that it could be made optional; it just doesn't appear to be this way at the moment.
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Chris O'Halloran
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Daniel Lawson
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Peter Reutemann
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Sandy