I added via vSphere 5.5  a new Hard Disk of 500MB to a virtual machine and the server sees it as 524MB.     Any idea why?    fdisk -l &gt;Disk /dev/sdg: 524 MB, 524288000 bytes &gt;64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 500 cylinders &gt;Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes &gt;Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes &gt;I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes &gt;Disk identifier: 0x00000000
got me wondering about the differences between these three ways of measuring size: a kibibyte, a kilobit, and the conventional kilobyte.  I understand that these measurements have different uses (data transfer rate is measured in bits/sec), but I'm not quite sure if I can tell the difference between Mb and MB and MiB.  Here is a comment, reproduced below, taken from  (emphasis mine).     The C64 has 65536 bytes of RAM. By   convention, memory size is specified   in kibiBytes, data transfer rates in   kilobits, and mass storage in   whatever-the-manufacturers-think-of-now-Bytes. Harddrives use T, G, M and k on the   label, Windows reports the size in Ti,   Gi, Mi and ki. And those 1.44MB   floppys? Those are neither 1.44MB nor   1.44MiB, they are 1.44 kilokibibytes. That's 1440kiB or 1'474'560 bytes. –   Third
What is wrong with my date regex? I've just set up a new machine with Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 and then run  apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install git   Now if I run git --version it tells me I have git version 1.7.5.4 but on my local machine I have the much newer git version 1.7.9.2  I know I can install from source to get the newest version, but I thought that it was a good idea to use the package manager as much as possible to keep everything standardized.  So is it possible to use apt-get to get a newer version of git, and what is the right way to do it? Are "whores" and "horse" homophones? I’m Spanish but sometimes see TV shows in English.  My question is whether the words horse and whores sound exactly the same, because in many English language TV shows it seems like they are, which really surprises me.   Are they homophones?  I cannot hear any voicing at the end of the word whores to distinguish the two words. Bring back review numbers to the top bar Though I never quite understood what those numbers were and they were quite ugly, they were the only reason I ever visited the reviews page.   Can we have similar functionality back on the top bar please? Summation of natural number set with power of $m$ Who knows about the summation of this series: $$\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}i^m $$  where $m$ is constant and $m\in \mathbb{N}$?  thanks Okay, obviously beyond Data and the Soong-type androids. But seriously, we have more robots in our daily life now than there apparently are on Trek. Is there a canon answer why not? It seems like Star Wars is more on the nose in this regard - it’s unclear why all dirty/dangerous/boring work wouldn’t be done by robots (anthropomorphic or not). Maximum weight an average bicycle can carry? A few years ago, I've bought  (see edit) bike. At that time I was around 90 kgs and I didn't have any problems.  Today I'm around 120 kgs and I was considering (among other things) starting cycling again. Is this bike "good" enough to carry me? What should I expect? Any tips?  EDIT! Apparently, Drag have renamed some of their bikes in the last few years, so the above information is a bit wrong.  seems to be my bike. At first I didn't recognize much difference, but this one has suspension on the front which mine also has. Does this change anything Ready-to-Use Database models example Where can I find ready-to-use database models ?  I don't need a database with data in it, but only schemas (UML diagrams). Perhaps something like the , but much more complex and real world. Outline radius? Why no ooVoo on ubuntu? Why is the [I'm Done] button unavailable after only flagging comments in the First Posts review queue? I just flagged two comments during a review of a question in the First Posts queue (on another SE site). Then I wanted to select the button I'm Done, but it's unavailable (I can only select No action needed). Even if I refresh my page (while still on that review page), it remains the same.  If however I also downvote the question (only temporary, as a test, since I don't want to downvote the question being reviewed), then it seems to work as I'd expect it to: the button I'm Done becomes available, and No action needed becomes unavailable.  Why is the I'm Done button unavailable after only flagging comments in the First Posts review queue?  Notes:   I'm not convinced that you're supposed to review the actual post, and not (only) the comments underneath it (as mentioned in 's comment). Because "if" I would post a new comment, or just upvote an existing comment, I can actually select I'm Done. While in this case I flagged existing comments which IMO had become obsolete. Flagging comments is "acting on comments". And if my flag gets accepted (in this case: "no longer needed"), and the comment is actually deleted (by the mod), then it makes the question a bit more readable (= don't waste your time digesting a comment which is obsolete). Therefor "IMO", in the end I also "acted on the post". Think about all those posts with a zillion of comments, of which many are obsolete (e.g because the post got updated already). I am not sure (yet) if a similar issue exist in any other review queue (i.e. the Late Answers queue). I stupidly ran sudo rm /* followed by sudo rm -R /*  My sites still run, although the vast majority of commands like ls are now broken.  Is there a simple way to get data off the server or reverse some of damage? SFDC DKIM Setup - Production or Sandbox? Cannot figure out this via SFDC documentation. Need someone who have setup this before to advise.  Basically we want to enable DKIM for our SFDC org. In testing Sandbox and production, the from email address is using the same email domain. For example, "test@abc.com" for sandbox and "contact@abc.com" in production.   Question: shall we setup DKIM in both sandbox and production or just need to setup in production since sandbox and production are actually using the same domain "abc.com"? Show that $\left(1+\dfrac{1}{n}\right)^n$ is monotonically increasing Alternate moves, first one to roll a 6 wins: what's the probability of winning? Question: Players A and B play a sequence of independent games. Player A starts and throws a fair die and wins on a "six". If she fails then player B throws the same die and wins on a "six" or fails otherwise. If she fails then player A gets the die and throws again, and so on. The first player to throw a "six" wins. Find the probability that player A wins.  Here is what I have done:  A wins right away: $\dfrac{1}{6}$  A fails B wins: $\dfrac{5}{6}\times \dfrac{1}{6}$  A fails B fails A wins: $\dfrac{5}{6}\times \dfrac{5}{6}\times \dfrac{1}{6}$  Unlike another similar question which the player B can win on "five" and "six" after player A fails on the first throw, in this case, the games do not seem to have an endpoint. How should I calculate the probability that player A wins then? How do I create an .exe for a Java program? "Nobody want to go there," or "nobody wants to go there"? In English, the number 0 is treated as plural. It is then:   0 seconds 1 second    1.2 seconds   2 seconds     Shouldn't it be "nobody want to go there," instead of "nobody wants to go there"?  I also saw in TOEFL that "any __" should be used with a singular.  But I see it very common that it is a plural also.  Why is that?  (updated: example, "we don't have any apples any more" vs "If you get any apple, please let me know.") I have seen lots of UI designer nowadays including this kind of illustration i want to know the name of this style so that i can also learn and try this in my designs. Detecting an undefined object property Is it supposed to be a HTML or an HTML