On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:09:41AM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > To give credit where credit is due, Jason Tower was the one who > suggested Knoppix. But I agree it's cool and I would have suggested > this too expect he beat me to it. However, if you'll read the rest of > this thread you will see that the OS only seeing "286 Gigs" vs "300 Gig" > is due to using different units. :-) It's fully expected, and a way to > minimize confusing would be to use the GiB unit designator instead (read > my post.)
It's also marketing non-sense intended to get a bigger number on the box. RAM manufacturuers never quote in 10^3 units, developers never quote in 10^3 units and the drives themselves have 512 byte sectors (2^9) not 500 (5 x 10^2) byte sectors. KB, GB, etc. are well defined in the industry. HD manufacturers ignore it because they can and not be technically lying. jf -- John Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICBM: N37 12'54", W80 27'14" Z+2100'
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