Inconsistent file size during Blag-140k-x86_64.iso download....
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Inconsistent file size during Blag-140k-x86_64.iso download....
Blag-140k-x86_64 iso was 697 MB according to google chrome as well as firefox while downloading, but the downloads folder in Mac OS X thinks it's 730.9 MB. What is going on here? the MD5 checks out, but it's certainly bizarre that the file size was not consistently the same. http://s22.postimg.org/xfzcyluz3/Scr...1_24_43_PM.png
If the site provides torrent then no need to download it whole again. You can use rtorrent, aria2c or gtk-transmission to only get parts which are damaged.
The size difference may be due to MB or MiB representation.
The difference is 10^6 bytes vs 2^20 bytes. The bytes are calculated by powers of two. Put another way is to multiply or divide by 1024 each time you want to convert a unit of KB, MB, GB, etc.
Probably marketing. You can use MiB to make your drives *seem* bigger to idiots. Remember that 99 of technical marketing is about selling things to the ignorant masses.
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