Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:48:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:47:55 -0500 Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.84]:27790 "EHLO mailout09.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:47:39 -0500 Date: 27 Dec 2001 13:57:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8FeKj4zXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <20011220234939.A32287@suse.cz> Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh8 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <20011220143247.A19377@thyrsus.com> <20011220143247.A19377@thyrsus.com> <20011220234939.A32287@suse.cz> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org vojtech@suse.cz (Vojtech Pavlik) wrote on 20.12.01 in <20011220234939.A32287@suse.cz>: > Now my opinion on this would be: By sticking KiB everywhere nothing is > helped. To the knowledgeable, it's nothing new that memory is measured > in binary units, while ethernet speed in decimal ones. To the newbie, > KiB is about as cryptical as KB and he'll never know which is which, > because as a newbie (s)he didn't read the standards. Well, considering that I had to look at half a dozen web pages via Google to make sure that ethernet did, indeed, use decimal, despite having been in the industry for about a decade, I'd say that this *would* help. And the newbie would at least recognize that there is something going on, learning about which just might be a good idea. And the answer would presumably come not out of a standard, but out of a FAQ. > And speaking of the 1 Mbps connection - I fear that in many cases > that'll be 1024000 bytes per second. What M is that? Binary or decimal? A lied-about one. These abominations deserve to die, yesterday. Preferrably messily. > Who does care? If you're selling it to me, I certainly do. MfG Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/