Moins, On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:38:31 +0100 Jan Claeys <li...@janc.be> wrote:
> Op woensdag 25-03-2009 om 16:19 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Scott > James Remnant: > > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:26 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote: > > > This assumes you buy into the SI's naming scheme and can say > > > things like "kibibyte" and "tebibyte" without bursting into > > > giggles or groaning in despair :-) > > > It isn't SI, it's IEEE > > I think it's IEEE, CIE & ISO now (although I can't be sure about ISO > as it's not freely available, but IIRC there is something mentioned > in the table of contents that is publicly available on some national > standards organisations sites). TBH, I just bursted into a laugh attack....for easyiness: 500 Gigabytes as written on a Harddrive label are not the same as 500 Gigabytes transfered over the Network (when you know HD vendor definition: kilo == 1000 and Network vendor definition normally kilo == 1024) Check for yourself...and be frustrated of different "standards" (which makes be lol again now ;)) Regards, \sh -- Stephan '\sh' Hermann | OSS Developer & Systemadministrator JID: s...@linux-server.org | http://www.sourcecode.de/ GPG ID: 0xC098EFA8 | http://leonov.tv/ 3D8B 5138 0852 DA7A B83F DCCB C189 E733 C098 EFA8 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
