On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 12:51 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:52 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
shirish writes (Using standardized SI prefixes):
Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix .
Urgh, these things are ugly and an abomination. We should
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:29 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Without the binary unit to consider, when we quote a drive as 1TB, we
know that it has *at least* 1,000,000,000,000 bytes available.
Depending on the drive, it may have anywhere between this and
1,099,511,627,776 bytes available.
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:01 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more and no
less.
No it doesn't.
The meaning of 1 TB depends on the context, and has always done so.
Scott
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Let me start with a dumb example:
For a child or uninterested commoner that flying critter is simply a
birdie. For those in the know exactly the same entity is a Falco
peregrinus.
Even if simply calling it birdie or perhaps falcon would be
easier, more user friendly more understandable for
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:29 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
[...]
And we still have many figures in both GB and GiB which are neither of
the two!
okay ... reading on ...
[...]
I see no problem with this 1TB quote being approximate. It's
rounded anyway.
So you don't care if it is
After wasting too much time reading this thread, I think the bike shed
should be yellow this time.
And for something at least slightly useful:
This is not something Ubuntu should do, upstreams should do this. So if
anyone really cares about this, poke our upstreams instead of rambling
on about
As I see it there are two ways of resolving the difference between KiB
and KB.
* Use Rosetta to update the text and fix the output so that it now
reads KiB. This would be relatively simple to do, but not actually
helpful longer term.
* Fix the source code that calculates KB by
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:01 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:29 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Without the binary unit to consider, when we quote a drive as 1TB, we
know that it has *at least* 1,000,000,000,000 bytes available.
Depending on the drive, it may have
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 00:35 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote:
I agree that this is the way to go. However, I think the OP wanted to
suggest to have something like an official policy so that
changes/patches are also created by ubuntu and eventually proposed
upstream.
But I guess there will be no
Ivan Jager [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alex Jones wrote:
1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more
and no less. If they want to actually put 1.024 TB on the disk
then they can say 1 TB (approx.) like any other industry
(detergent, bacon, etc.).
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:03 +1000, James Doc Livingston wrote:
1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more and no
less. If they want to actually put 1.024 TB on the disk then they can
say 1 TB (approx.) like any other industry (detergent, bacon, etc.).
How many other
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