There's SI and there's another international group (4 letter acronym...) I
don't even want to think about the results if these two groups deviate...
Here's fix, use: 10dMB for decimal and 10bMB for binary... Ugly and
confusing at first but VERY unambiguous once you know what they mean. I'd
take that tradeoff over nice and pretty at first but VERY ambiguous once
you (think you) know what they mean...
Ob-linux-kernel: if k=1000 and K=1024, the kernel is wrong when it reports
memory sizes... (ahhhhhhh!!!!)
>As for hard disk sizes, I've gotten used to take the marketed size as
>an estimate only. ;-)
No kidding, besides the 2^10 vs 10^6 (which is inconsistantly used even by
drive manufactures) there's also: formatted vs unformatted, 512B vs 1024B
sectors, compressed vs uncompressed, ad nausem (sp...)... IMO, linux
shouldn't even bother trying to figure out what the ad copy said, it should
just report what it sees.
-Rob H.