On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:41:52 +1300 (NZDT) John Carter <john.car...@tait.co.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > Can you confirm that mb, Mb, and MB are all interchangeable, and are > > MegaBytes? My brain hurts! > > Your brain hurts? What? Did you have a Nice Visit from the Migraine > Fairy... > http://www.aperfectworld.org/0106.html No, just enforced sobriety I think... > > Now I think about it, I should have standardized on MByte, > > previous_message.gsub!( /\bmb\b/i, "MByte") > > The hardware types around here tend to speak bits for some strange > reason. I have had a few dealings with telecoms people, who get real twichy about that. Still, write figures for USB flash it still terrible whatever... what happened to 480Mbit/sec! I recall someone built a raid array out of these not long ago... I expect he'll be disappointed with the write performance, too! > > The MB abbreviation is coughed up by dd and hdparm. > > Sorry. > > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.car...@tait.co.nz > New Zealand > Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz
