Re: CPU specific/optimized Debian builds ?
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:04:02PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> That the people who put labels on hard drives are incapable of binary
> math, and that the IEC feels they have any business meddling with a
> system that worked fine for years before they decided to get involved,
> does not make 'GiB' correct, or even useful. That anyone believes this
> new set of prefixes will /reduce/ confusion when RAM, file sizes,
> transfer speeds, and bandwidth rates (all of which have a greater direct
> impact on the average computer user than the total number of bytes
> available for use on a 160GB hard drive) is positively laughable.
... and I spat in disgust to see my copy of ifconfig start spewing "GiB"
at me. Ugh.
I'm half waiting to hear someone say "100 gibs" aloud in a store, and
see them pointed to the gaming section.
--
Glenn Maynard
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