On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Yes, to me, 1MB is 1024 KB. Always been, until those idiotic hard disk > manufacturers decided to redefine the common interpretation of what > everyone else used to consider what a MB is just to boost their > marketing claims. Actually, they just lost even that in a lawsuit (yeah, they "settled"). The fact is, 1MB = 1024kB = 1048576 bytes. Anybody who claims anything else is a lying piece of pondscum, trying to just fool people into paying more for less. Which is why you should *not* use MiB and KiB - it only validates the pondscum. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
