On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 03:11:57PM -0400, der Mouse wrote: >>> (Depressing that Debian has bought into disk manufcaturers' attempts >>> to redefine the gigabyte... [...] >> In their defense, SI defines GB as 10^9 and IEEE calls 2^30 GiB to >> differentiate. > >The SI and the IEEE don't get to redefine megabytes and gigabytes any >more than disk manufacturerrs do. > >http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Q/quantifiers.html
They don't have to redefine anything: the aberrant usage was never defined in any standard fashion, nor was it ever used as consistently as apologists would like to believe. The general summation is "get over it, it wasn't true anyway". Mike Stone _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
