Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:21:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:21:07 -0500 Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.19]:13520 "EHLO mailout06.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:20:54 -0500 Date: 27 Dec 2001 14:10:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8FeKjMmXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <1008883684.4704.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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:

<1008883684.4704.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 reid.hekman@ndsu.nodak.edu (Reid Hekman) wrote on 20.12.01 in <1008883684.4704.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>: > On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 15:07, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > 1024 decimal kilobyte disk > > > 8.4 decimal gigabyte disks > > though as your example showed, there's very little, if any, > > ambiguity: disk is always decimal, memory is always binary, etc. Ah, but the problem with this is that it's *wrong*. Disk is not always decimal. Nor is it always binary. Most disk sizes are an unholy mixture of the two that deserves a stake through the heart, where 1 GB = 1,024,000,000 bytes. If even people here do not understand how this works, then can it possibly be the right way of doing things?! > More importantly, less educated users than yourself might not strike up > the distinction between disk and memory units. The common example being, > "why does my 9.1GB hard drive show up as 8.9GB?" Rather than explain A current "9.1GB" hard disk would, if dc didn't lie to me, be either 9.3 GB (decimal) or 8.7 GiB (binary). > For me, my reasons for full names are consistency and aesthetics -- > allowing us to sidestep the abortion that the IEC has created of SI > units. So you'll be saying "9.3 milliards of bytes" - or is it "billions" where you live? 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/