From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:45:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711031542010.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711031645350.21255@xanadu.home>



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