Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:54:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:47:57 -0500 Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.83]:41656 "EHLO mailout07.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:47:41 -0500 Date: 27 Dec 2001 12:45:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8FeKhAhXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <20011222171438.A10233@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: <20011221141847.E15926@redhat.com> <20011222171438.A10233@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 22.12.01 in <20011222171438.A10233@suse.cz>: > The only problem is that M = 10^6 plus Mi = 2^20 don't cover the usages ... > > 4Mbit bandwidth is usually 4 * 10^3 * 2^10 bits per second. > 20GB harddrive is usually 20 * 10^6 * 2^10 bytes. There's a simple answer. "These people lie." > The confusion is there. It can't be erradicated by adding Mi's and Gi's, > because they don't cover the whole spectrum. We don't *want* something that covers that part of the spectrum. We want that part to be *avoided*. 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/