27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
8:58 a.m.
On Thursday 27 July 2006 09:51 am, Doc Shipley wrote:
We now have mebibytes, kibibytes, and other
associated crap instead
of proper terminology. If you read much open-source literature or docs,
that spec is becoming disturbingly common.
Euw.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Can you tell I'm not thrilled?
I don't like those much either. :-(
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