On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Ralf Mardorf a écrit :On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 09:50 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:On Mi, 13 feb 13, 14:08:15, Richard Hector wrote:Abusing the standard prefixes like that was always a horrible hack.+1 It's also a major source of confusion for many users.Agreed. And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient instead of abusing SI decimal prefixes.
And who declared these made-up prefixes "official"?Making up prefixes for something which has always been that way is confusing.
It's simple. When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2. When dealing with distances, it's powers of 10.
Not confusing at all.
$ hwinfo --memory Memory Size: 3 GB + 512 MB so it should be GiB, but they call it GB.Bad habits die hard. Many programs have been faulty, but more and more are getting fixed.
Yep, and maybe sooner or later Debian will catch up.