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However, I did some more research for you on this and found these few articles: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy - Here is Ubuntu's Policy on units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix - This wikipedia article describes how there are different abbreviations for decimal and binary numbers. For instance, a kilometer (K) is 1000 meters, but a kibibyte (KiB) is 1024 bytes. I didn't understand this before I read your bug, but after looking at these links it cleared it up. Let me know if you have any questions about this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/831501 Title: incorrect abbreviations of GB, MB, KB in UI (extra 'i') Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: The UI has GiB, MiB, KiB as abbreviations for what I presume are GB, MB, and KB. That makes no more sense than using Kim (instead of km) for kilometer. I assume that you are correctly using B for byte, even in network bandwidth. (If you mean bit, then it should be b and not B.) MB - megabyte Mb - megabit etc. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.28.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic-pae 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Aug 22 13:05:29 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-21 (62 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/831501/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
