Am Dienstag, den 02.06.2009, 12:45 +0800 schrieb Christopher Chan: > Nils Kassube wrote: > > Christopher Chan wrote: > > > >> That stupid IEC standard is at complete odds with the way computers > >> operate. I don't want to have to miscalculate just because tools > >> started following stupidity and gave me numbers that were rounded up > >> or down. Take this MB/Mib nonsense and stuff it. As a system > >> administrator, I am having NONE of it. > >> > > > > Why do you refuse to learn something new? > > > > > > > Ha! Why should I learn something that is NOT STANDARD? Yap all you like > about IEC and whoever else but until this thing is consistent not only > across all Linux distributions but also across other operating systems > like the BSDs, Mac OS X, members of the UNIX family (Solaris, > OpenSolaris, AIX) and Windows I am not having any of it.
It is a _standard_! Standards are for making our lives easier (except the Open XML standard). Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Software . The Linux kernel, gnome-network and gnome-system-monitor uses it for example. > A bunch of academics gets together and says, no, you cannot call that > whatever, call it crumbybyte and nobody has paid much attention for the > last decade. Great. So do you agree to use the ell for measuring the distance instead using the SI standard? Cheers, Benjamin
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