Download problems

[Harry Kuhman]

Latest status: I did another torrent down with an upgraded (latest) version of Azureus. Download finished complete and ok, again with size 711.124 KB. This time the MD5 of the download was correct. so what follows from this?

a) my first download was corrupted to unknown reasons
b) obviousely the ISO size reported at the download listing does not fit the object that was supplied and hashed by MD5
c) now I have to go and buy a better CD with 700 MB; I wonder though if not the download ISO is too big!

You sent the e-mail, I sent BitTorrent. Yea, it is an exe that you got from a stranger; scan the hell out of it and even install it on a test system if you like to feel safe. But in reality it an exe that you requested and I'm not going to muck with my reputation by sending you a bad file. Heck, I even post here under my own name, not some alias.

now you say the file is just over 711 KILOBYTES??? I think you really need to be sure of what units you are looking at. And a file will look larger if you look at it's size in bytes or in K than it will look in megs. I don't have the iso on this machine any longer, so I can't give you an exact size, but a 699 meg file I'm looking at is also 733,749,248 bytes and 716,552 kB. I think, as I said before, that you are looking at the file size in the wrong units and misunderstanding the real size.

no, the iso will fit the 700Mb just fine. the "extra" few bits are information to the burner and burnersoftware (yes I know, I made that statement much too simple to be tecnically correct)

It will fit fine. But not because there is 17 megs of an "extra few bits" of formatting information, but rather because Linunix is looking at a size in Kb and not in Meg.

[Linunix]

No reason to get excited! I have my security protocols and there is no personal suspicion involved in them. I also have to correct your view that I had requested an EXE, I have not!

To the other topic: thanks for clearification! I never found this American keen re-definition (Bill Gates?) of units very convincing, but I guess we have to live with it.

[Harry Kuhman]

No reason to get excited! I have my security protocols and there is no personal suspicion involved in them. I also have to correct your view that I had requested an EXE, I have not!

OK, Sorry. Someone sent me an e-mail address by PM and asked for the exe. I had assumed it was you, but not a big deal, glad to give the file to anyone who wants it.

To the other topic: thanks for clearification! I never found this American keen re-definition (Bill Gates?) of units very convincing, but I guess we have to live with it.

I like to blame Gates for a lot, but he is not redefining megs and K's . 1024 bytes has always been a Kilobyte (not 1000) and 1024x1024 has always been a Megabyte. You would not want it any other way, since memory pretty much has to be sold in powers of 2 for address line reasons. The hard drive makers are pretty dishonorable about the way they overstate megabytes, and more recently the DVD makers have done the same (although CD discs were accurate about it). But a user should simply recognize that 728,190,976 bytes is the same as 694 megs which is the same as 711,124 KB. I pointed this out several posts ago, and all MS OS's that I have seen let you see the numbers in all 3 formats (I just got the numbers that I used above by looking at an ISO in Win98 and then pulling up the "properties" for it.