Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Dec 2001 13:21:50 +0000 | From | Ian Molton <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. |
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On a sunny Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:47:43 -0600 Phil Howard gathered a sheaf of electrons and etched in their motions the following immortal words:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:24:17AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> I can understand your point about not jumping into something that will > turn out (possibly) to be a big flop and cause new confusion. However, > I'd like to point out that any new idea will _never_ become adopted if > everyone takes the position of "I'm not going to do it until most > everyone else does first".
I hope *everyone* takes just that position. MiB GiB. yeah, and I've got a miB right here. fractional bits. ha!
fucking moronic is a phrase that springs to mind. probably something an accountant thought of whilst twiddling his/her thumbs staring at excel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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