On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 01:14 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 2007-01-11 18:12, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > I still don't get why its authors didn't recognize lower-case 'm' as 
> > equivalent to upper-case 'M'.
> 
> Lower-case stands for 'milli' and there are no millibytes :-)
> 
> The 'k' can be upper or lower case, depending on context (eg. KB vs.
> km/h, etc), though the lower case 'k' is the SI rule.
> 

And btw, "B" is for bytes (octets) and "b" for bits
The term "Byte" comes from by-eight.

So, "only 26mb swap is used" is *not* very much...


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