On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 09:50 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 13 feb 13, 14:08:15, Richard Hector wrote: > > On 12/02/13 22:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > My machine has got 4GB RAM too, but only 1,000,000,000 hex-bytes ;p. > > > Serious, there is no other correct sum than 4,294,967,296 bytes. For an > > > old former Assembler programmer it's disgusting to distinguish between > > > GB and GiB. OTOH kilos etc. are 10^x, but for the computer I do the math > > > based on 1024. > > > > Abusing the standard prefixes like that was always a horrible hack. > > +1 > > It's also a major source of confusion for many users.
$ hwinfo --memory Memory Size: 3 GB + 512 MB so it should be GiB, but they call it GB. Regards, Ralf -- Btw. my PC has got got 4048 M(i)B - 256 M(i)B framebuffer = 3 G(i)B + 768 M(i)B and I've given up to find out what's going wrong a long time ago. IIRC with a PAE kernel it always was ok, IIRC just 64-bit kernels cause this issue on my machine. I couldn't find a BIOS setting or any other bad setting, that might be the cause for the missing 256 M(i)B. I've got a FreeBSD install for a while, this thread reminds me to check if there is the same issue for BSD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1360837218.3618.86.camel@precise
