On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:13 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > 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) > The latter isn't true either.
Network speeds are generally in thousands of bits per second and multiples thereof. The primary users of binary multiples is the RAM industry, since it's a fundamental multiple of how RAM works. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com
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