Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 09:50 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 13 feb 13, 14:08:15, Richard Hector wrote: >>> Abusing the standard prefixes like that was always a horrible hack. >> +1 >> >> It's also a major source of confusion for many users.
Agreed. And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient instead of abusing SI decimal prefixes. > $ hwinfo --memory > Memory Size: 3 GB + 512 MB > > so it should be GiB, but they call it GB. Bad habits die hard. Many programs have been faulty, but more and more are getting fixed. -- 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/511d5c81.8000...@plouf.fr.eu.org
