Derek Broughton wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: > > >> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: >> >>> Benjamin Drung wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon Jun 1 04:15:19 BST 2009 Remco wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> That is what the bug report is about. Using MiB for values, wich are >>>> base 2. >>>> >>>> So is there anybody who wants to keep the old confusing behaviour? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> /me raises hand. >>> >> Ditto. >> >> To my mind, the power-of-2 grouping is sufficiently intrinsic to the >> nature of bytes, whilst the "kibi mebi gibi tebi" stuff not only sounds >> and looks stupid, but loses a great deal of clarity by making all of the >> prefixes differ only in a single syllable. >> >> > How can _explicitly_ naming units be less clear than making people guess > whether units are 10**2 or 2**10? > I don't know...like I only found out that there is this thing called kibi, mebi, gibi, etc?
> I've argued with Christopher about this before, and don't want to continue > it here, but I really think it's hypocritical for a distribution based on > _standards_ to ignore the fact that we _have_ standards for this, simply > because real geeks count in binary. > Yada yada bitrates. Hey, I did submit in a post in this thread that I was wrong and that network equipment/bandwidths actually go by base10 whateverbits. > As for "stupid", "kibi" only looks or sounds stupid to people who've never > used the units. To the average user, "kilobytes" is equally stupid. > Dunno, never seemed to be a problem with all those users I taught in Windows classes before. Posting in a local Linux newsgroup this kibi,megi,gibi nonsense drew blanks. Nobody knew what I was talking about. Don't you love standards that are not known to exist? Anyway, I will join you chums in kowtowing to the users and unheard of standards...once this across the board. How nice it would be to scp a file over and get a different size report. Get this into POSIX or something or be the 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
