> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes:
Karsten> Digging a bit deeper: advertisers and marketers stole the
Karsten> traditional measures of storage: kilobyte, megabyte,
Karsten> gigabyte, by imposing the interpretation of these as
Karsten> powers of ten, rather than powers of tw
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Of course, my answer _was_ helpful... you'll find that tossing "MiB
> standard" into google will get you the right answer.
Tried it, didn't get useful responses. :o/
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Baloo
Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Digging a bit deeper: advertisers and marketers stole the traditional
> measures of storage: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, by imposing the
> interpretation of these as powers of ten, rather than powers of two.
True, but only the computer industry ever used kilo-, mega-,
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:41:14PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 12:44, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
> >
> > > > uhm, what are "MiB"'s?
> > >
> > > One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> A MiB is a mibibyte, and a KiB is a kibibyte.
Almost, except for spelling. It's "mebibyte", not "mibibyte". But
"kibibyte" is correct.
> MiB == 2^20 bytes, KiB == 2^10 bytes. By contrast, a MB, or
> megabyte, == 10^6 bytes and a KB, or kilobyte, == 10^3 bytes.
> This m
| > uhm, what are "MiB"'s?
and here I thought they were "Men In Black"
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 12:44, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
>
> > > uhm, what are "MiB"'s?
> >
> > One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public.
>
> That's great. How bout a helpful answer?
A MiB is a mibibyte, and a KiB is a kibiby
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
>
>> > uhm, what are "MiB"'s?
>>
>> One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public.
>
> That's great. How bout a helpful answer?
It's the IEC name for 1024x1024 bytes, also known as
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
> > uhm, what are "MiB"'s?
>
> One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public.
That's great. How bout a helpful answer?
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:17:39PM -0800, martin f krafft wrote:
> seamus:~> /sbin/ifconfig | grep MiB
> RX bytes:614070395 (585.6 MiB) TX bytes:125545699 (119.7 MiB)
> RX bytes:34937878 (33.3 MiB) TX bytes:34937878 (33.3 MiB)
>
> uhm, what are "MiB"'s?
Looking at the source, they'r
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> uhm, what are "MiB"'s?
One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public.
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