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gaspojo

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Memory units
« on: March 06, 2005, 06:44:14 PM »
I think we really should change units according to this:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
 
i.e., changing kb, MB and GB to KiB, MiB and GiB

Kernel and coreutils already do this.
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Re: Memory units
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2005, 07:52:00 PM »
Hum...
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« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2005, 03:19:16 PM »
and what about internet time? ... let's make our life harder and harder ...  8o
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RE: .. and
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2005, 03:39:14 PM »
The IEC was about 4 decades too late on this one...  Everyone knows that 10^3 ~ 2^10, so there's no problem, right? RIGHT???

(AMPS' english translation uses IEC binary prefixes, though :) )

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Re: Memory units
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2005, 05:10:48 PM »
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i.e., changing kb, MB and GB to KiB, MiB and GiB

!!! This is one of exelent ways to amuse yourelf when you bored to write code. :)

Are we already agreed about miles vs. kilometers ?
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Re: Memory units
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2005, 07:20:29 PM »
Did you actually read the link and do you actually know what you're talking about, lfroen?
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Re: Memory units
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2005, 08:24:02 PM »
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Did you actually read the link and do you actually know what you're talking about, lfroen?

Of cause I did. And when I read it, I was really surprized. They said, that it has been since 1998, but as someone that works in telecom, I naver heard about. No customer told me "hey, you marking your devices wrong - it should be GiB instead of GB"
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Re: Memory units
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2005, 08:59:19 PM »
Weel, that doesn't mean they're right :P
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Re: Memory units
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2005, 12:29:39 AM »
I know many of the telekom guys, and I am sure they are nearly never right. Thats why they are called "Telekomiker".
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Re: Memory units
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2005, 12:43:00 AM »
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Weel, that doesn't mean they're right :P

Maybe not, but the situation is a DAMN good deal for storage device manufacturers, who can conveniently "lose" a few GiB off a device because of the difference in 2^30 bytes (GiB) and 10^9 bytes (GB).  Conveniently, most OSes don't differentiate so that nice 200GB drive you bought will probably only hold 186 GB (really GiB, but herein is the problem :P )

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Re: Memory units
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2005, 01:03:25 AM »
UBERPENGUIN POSTED!!! PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Memory units
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2005, 02:27:27 AM »
I think it does not hurt to use the proper units.
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Re: Memory units
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2005, 06:51:50 AM »
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UBERPENGUIN POSTED!!! PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes... Everything you know is a lie and what...

Well nothing much has happened with AMPS lately, so...  The posting doesn't happen...

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Re: Memory units
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2005, 05:18:49 PM »
I don't care which units we use. Well, Ok, I do, base 2 all the way baby! But as long as we are consistant in what units we use it doesn't matter all that much.
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Re: Memory units
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2005, 06:28:50 PM »
But... you guys are missing the point... UBER POSTED!
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