Package: iog Version: 1.03-3 Severity: minor Hi,
the IOG generated web pages display traffic accounting sums. The units used to display them are KB, MB and GB, the computation however is done using 2^10, 2^20 and 2^30. In order with current best practices (IEC standards and FIPS regulations and, first of all, common sense) the display should either use SI prefixes and accordingly do decimal compu- tation (10^3, 10^6 and 10^9) or it should use the IEC binary prefixes KiB, MiB and GiB and continue to use binary computation. Ideally this would be configurable. I don't know if the upstream author still answers (there are bugs dangling for more than 2 years), if he doesn't the easiest fix would IMO be to change the units to KiB, MiB and GiB but keep the arithmetics. It would make the display correct and doesn't change to the "M means 10^6, not 2^20" notion which, despite beeing entirely correct, is often a source of lamentation by those who still think this notion was invented by hard disk manufacturers to sell less disk space for more money. Making such a change would also likely not break the program as easy as changing the arithmetics. TIA, Andre. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.10 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages iog depends on: ii libsnmp-session-perl 1.07-1 Perl support for accessing SNMP-aw -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
