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Maybe a case for command line and then: Move *.* null.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Were you the one asking about drones for inspecting power lines? I found another site... See here[^]
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I wonder if the situation for viewing crazy huge images on Windows has improved in the last decade.
About 10 years ago I downloaded a 400 megapixel mosaic from the HST team. At the time I discovered that 99% of Windows image viewers used the naïve approach of trying to allocate a single buffer big enough to decompress the entire thing all at once and then crashed with an OOM error (when the slammed into the 2gb limit for 32bit processes). The only exceptions I found were Adobe (reported by a few people who tried it to actually have reasonable performance working with the monster) and some freeware GIS viewer someone here recommended (worked but awful usability). Gimp for Linux32 worked; but the Windows version faceplanted like every other normal image viewer I tried.
At 1.5 gigapixels; that image is probably going to take 6GB to decompress. (More if the viewer creates a few pre-zoomed versions to make zooming in/out less painful.)
In the interest of abusing my toys I'll have to try it when I get home. Hopefully a box with 18GB of ram will save me from having to go to swap.
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Dan Neely wrote: In the interest of abusing my toys I'll have to try it when I get home.
I'm fascinated to hear about the results!
Marc
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Maybe I'm old school, and I know the reasoning behind the these fancy prefixes for measuring data, BUT is anyone else still using KB to mean a binary kilobyte and kB to mean a decimal kilobyte like we had back in the day before KiB came along with its fancy newfangled Kibi prefix?
Jeremy Falcon
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As all the byte-thing is computer connected (for me at least), also KB...so K in that connection is 1024 and never used no kB or KiB (even heard of them)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: even heard of them Hell yeah man, we got KB, kB, kb, Kb, etc.
Reminds me of 1337 sPeAk n0w th4T 1 th1Nk 4b0Ut 1t.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yes, I do. KB = 1024 bytes. Absolutely immutable fact and I care not what anyone says. 1000 bytes is a completely irrelevant arbitrary number.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I totally agree with you there, but you know how it goes... most people really don't have a concept of binary. HDD marketers aren't helping with that, so we still got the normal crowd to contend with. So, even though I'd not really use kB it's nice to know it's there. Kinda like Kb for kilobit. But this whole Kibi crap seems, well... like just repainting the wheel.
Jeremy Falcon
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Personally, I preferred the days before the filthy masses all had computers. KB=1000 bytes and bloody facebook. How has this progressed things?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: bloody facebook. How has this progressed things? You are preaching to the choir man. As much as I enjoy tech, in the hands of the average person that doesn't exercise their mind, it seems to be dumbing us down way too much. I've seen people walk into walls because they were too busy starting at their phones.
Jeremy Falcon
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I would agree with that (and in fact a few years back I did agree with it), if it weren't for the small fact that computer usage is now abstracted so many times away from binary data storage concepts.
Nowadays, unless your work specifically involves fine-detailed storage of data, the ol' binary stuff is about as relevant as the Newton and Newton metre are to people who drive over bridges, as opposed to the engineers who design them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Exactly! And when you up the quantities into hard drive levels (GB or TB) it becomes even less important. By the time you partition, format (into any one of a half dozen types) and install your chosen OS the space remaining is a totally obscure number.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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You don't say. Well, at least I'm not the only one that thinks Kibi is pointless and stupid.
Jeremy Falcon
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I propose we call them "freedombytes", cause 'merica.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Also, http://xkcd.com/394/[^]
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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The baker's kilobyte... nice.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm only using KB (in the mean of 1024), why to mix up clear(?-stnadard) technical definitions
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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The meaning of a word should not be depending on capitalization. I don't like the newfangled stuff like "decimal bytes" either.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yep that is very right. I use KB for 1024, but yes one should not make a difference between kB and KB, because the origin to describe memory of a computer is clearly emerged (? hope I hit the right word) 2^x.
Ehe, "decimal bytes", very good expression...maybe worth to make a copy right on it!?
Maybe one can invent a wiki page for this
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I'm using KiB (or 1024 ), now. In some pieces of code there's no place for misunderstanding.
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I'm old fashioned, there's not much misunderstanding with KB to me. Granted I was slow to accept C#, I may have to die to accept KiB.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm old and old fashioned, I accepted the garbage collector only because Lua has it. Nevertheless...
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