On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 13:57 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > 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.
Or anything relating in any way to storage other than hard drive sizes themselves, such as the size of sectors on various media (hd/optical/etc), filesystem blocks, filesystem overall size and file size limitations, etc. Chris -- 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
