Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 04:21:24 10/17/02
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On October 17, 2002 at 07:04:42, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 17, 2002 at 06:46:50, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On October 17, 2002 at 06:13:26, Johan Melin wrote: >> >>>If somebody tells you that "the storage capacity of this harddrive is 20 GB, 5 >>>GB is just the linux partition", then what is the storage capacity? 25 GB? >> >>To use your hard drive example: If 20(5) is the question, and I answer, "20GB >>total in terms of Windows. 5 is just the Linux partition," what would you make >>of that statement? IMO, it's possible to interpret that in more than one way. >>The problem is that it's unclear what "in terms of Windows" means, just as it's >>unclear what "in terms of brute force" means in Hsu's statement. > >The difference is that windows and linux seem to contradict when there is no >contradiction between brute force and hardware. It does not say, "The Windows partition is 20GB," or "Windows says the disk is 20GB, but 5GB is given to Linux." Just like Hsu doesn't say, "12 ply is the software partition," or "12 ply is the total (hardware+software) depth, but 6 ply is given to the hardware." There is not a clear definition of what the phrase "in terms of Windows" means, just as we don't have a clear definition of what Hsu means when he says "in terms of brute force".
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