[Sorry about not using `Reply'; my mail is weirdly broken at the moment.] Dear Debianistas:
The confusion between 1000 and 1024 has been solved. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes It's a really, REALLY good idea to adopt this. Willie Wonka wrote: > Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >>On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote: >>>If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes* This is due to disk manufacturer's duplicity. >>No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'. There is no ``big K'', though there's now a big Ki. (And I always wondered how one built a millibit, as in ``10 mbps network''. > So what do you propose as a solution ?? It's been taken care of. See above. > 150MB and 1500mb (which are both correct) Only if you wish to lower the hair content of techie's heads. Yours for sanity, Max Hyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
