After upgrading to Snow Leopard, free disk space calculation seems off.

So, I have a MacBook Pro 13". I bought it in June, so it came with Leopard. I ordered it with a 500GB hard drive, which actually came out to 465GB (as expected). However, since upgrading to Snow Leopard, the maximum disk space now reads 500.11GB, as opposed to 465GB. This makes zero sense to me. In Boot Camp, my disk reads 115GB, which is what I set it up to, but when viewing the size from OSX it says 124GB.
Basically, I'm wondering what this inconsistency is being caused by, as I could see some potential problems partitioning in the future with space that isn't actually there.

There's been a change in the calculations. Conversion from Base2 to Base10 arithmetic. See How Mac OS X reports drive capacity.
The info reported by Boot Camp remains in the original Base2, but others have reported that Boot Camp's computation is not accurate.
It is simply an arithmetic difference since a 500 GB drive in Base 10 is the same as a 465 GB drive in Base 2. But if you make a 100 GB partition using Disk Utility then it would be approximately a 93 GB partition in Base 2. But the total number of bytes is approximately the same.

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+Since Apple has made the decision to eliminate Appletalk from it's Operating System, you are now forced to set the printer up over TCP/IP. Please keep in mind that GCC has never provided drivers for the Mac. We use the Apple Built in Print Driver. We do provide an OS X PPD Installer located on our website that I recommend you download, unstuff, install, reboot your Mac, then add the printer. You can find the Installer at http://www.gccprinters.com/support/doc/ Click on the Model of your printer and download the OS X Installer. DO NOT download the Applications Folder.+
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John L.
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John

Hello John,
At this stage you will not be able to get this to print until the printer has a valid IP address. According to your post, the IP address setting is enabled but the actual IP address is unknown. This is most likely a result of the GCC being set to DHCP but if there is no DHCP server or router capable of assigning the printer an IP address, then it will not get a valid address.
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Once you have the IP address set in the printer, then you add the printer as the GCC tech stated, using IP > LPD for the protocol. Note that you will only need to enter the IP address, such as 192.168.1.4 as per your post example. Don't enter any other numbers, such as the 9300 port reference you have tried already the colon after the IP address followed by the 9300).
For the Print Using, you can use Generic PostScript to begin with as a test. If you then wanted to use the GCC PPD, then the link is okay. When you select the 21+n the next page shows the 21+ installer for OS 9 and OS X. This is a stuffit packed file so you will need some form of Stuffit (Stuffit Expander is a free download) to unpack the file first. Once unpacked, there is most likely an installer that you run. This will copy the PPD files for the printer to the appropriate folder.
Hope this helps. Please reply if you require more help.
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