Remco wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <maco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:15:19 pm Remco wrote: >> >>> Take a look at the properties of a file in Nautilus. It will tell you >>> a file is x MB, and y bytes. >>> >>> I have a file here of "701.2 MB", which is "735270912 bytes". Now, if >>> it really *were* 701.2 MB, then it would be 701200000 bytes. So that's >>> clearly base 2, which should be MiB. >>> >> I was disagreeing with the "under any" since AFAIK, Windows uses 1000 while >> Ubuntu does indeed use 1024. I'll take your word for it that Nautilus leaves >> out the i in GiB since I don't have it installed (KDE here). >> > > That's not the case in at least Windows XP. I just booted a VM and > have a file in Windows Explorer of "742KB", which is "760748 bytes". > For the same reason as my earlier Ubuntu example, this is clearly base > 2, and the wrong unit. > >
Wrong unit?! Ha! It has always been base2 and therefore the RIGHT unit. -- 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
