Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:51:16 pm Christopher Chan wrote: > >> That has been the case for years and only recently have I heard this >> nonsense of base10 whateverbyte units in stuff other than misleading but >> covered my behind disk labels. >> > > The IEEE decided nearly a decade ago that instead of redefining the SI units > (which were base 10 long before the invention of digital computers), we > should > have our own prefixes for 1024-based numbering schemes. > >
Oh did something like that happen? Too bad no operating system before and after ever paid attention to that. Unless Ubuntu wants to be the first oddball. -- 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