On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:01 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On 9/2/2010 10:38 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-09-02 13:26, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Carlos E. R. (carlos.e.r@opensuse.org) [20100902 12:59]:
Yes, but the name has changed. 1024 Bytes is now one kibibyte, abbreviated 1 KiB. And 1 KB is now exactly 1000 bytes, following the same rule as for any other unit of measurement (SI). I know. But apart from the fact that AFAIK the USA do not follow SI. That KiB/KB mess was created by people with no knowledge of the computer environment. The IEEE no knowledge? >:-) The IEEE is probably fine, but the KiB/KB idea was actually created by
Carlos E. R. wrote: the IEC. I lost track, Did Linda ever get an answer before the thread became a pontificating rant?
I replied [with some further questions relating to her LVM setup] to the original post - so hopefully her mail client placed it before all this noise. :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org