Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:53:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:53:47 -0500 Received: from [195.188.53.98] ([195.188.53.98]:518 "EHLO blueyonder.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:53:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 13:21:50 +0000 From: Ian Molton To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. Message-Id: <20011224132150.776c05ca.spyro@armlinux.org> In-Reply-To: <20011222044742.A27630@vega.ipal.net> In-Reply-To:

<20011222044742.A27630@vega.ipal.net> Reply-To: spyro@armlinux.org Organization: The dragon roost X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6cvs1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On a sunny Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:47:43 -0600 Phil Howard gathered a sheaf of electrons and etched in their motions the following immortal words: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:24:17AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > I can understand your point about not jumping into something that will > turn out (possibly) to be a big flop and cause new confusion. However, > I'd like to point out that any new idea will _never_ become adopted if > everyone takes the position of "I'm not going to do it until most > everyone else does first". I hope *everyone* takes just that position. MiB GiB. yeah, and I've got a miB right here. fractional bits. ha! fucking moronic is a phrase that springs to mind. probably something an accountant thought of whilst twiddling his/her thumbs staring at excel. - 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/