--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:28:08PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > It has always worked for me. I use eroaster to burn CDs, and (for no > > appaent reason) the Knoppix iso image fits on a 700 MB CD. There is a > > feature in eroaster (which is just a frontend anyway) which allows > > "over burning". I guess it has something to do with this option. > > Actually, it has more to do with the fact that the metric system gets > weird with computers. Kilo, mega, giga, etc are working off base 2 > instead of base 10 numbering. This means a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, a > megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, and 715,000,000 bytes is 698.2 MB, not 715 > MB. >
That is true only in the technical sense. I.e., the spec sheet for my laptop says it has a 20GB harddrive (and in 2 pt. font, at the bottom, they define a GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes). So, in the technical sense, my drive is only 18.6 GB (20e9/1024^3). Leave it up to the marketing types to cloud the issue. -Roberto Sanchez ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
