-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-05-02 at 11:00 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
Quoting "Carlos E. R." <>:
That is fascinating. I wasn't aware there was an actual change. I just figured the hard drive manufacturers were just trying to pull the wool over our collective eyes.
They do, of course! It just happens to be correct - now. It wasn't correct some years back, but they did none the less. Many people have being caught that way, and when they tried their brand new 80 MB HD the OS said was only 76.2 MB! And some of them wanted to return the disks as faulty... (My example is 80 MB to show how old is the problem... my HD was 84MB, ie, 80 MB, or rather, 80 MiB) This problem would have never happened if computer people did not misappropriate the K, M, G prefix changing the long time established meaning. I learnt about the kibi, mebi, gibi... prefixes very recently. Ie, I'm a recent convert, and like most converts I try to get more converts to redeem myself ;-)
So, now my memory management documentation is all wrong? I no longer have 4K of memory in my TRS-80? :P
ROTFL! X'-) No, it isn't politically correct now :-P - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGOO05tTMYHG2NR9URAqYgAJ9BDYr5/d1idR7ifee03B1a/MhnKACfdgyc a6DUSnUfbuLdiUg6+UznXIw= =ornP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org