-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Luciano Rocha Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:29 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd & Iscsi - fast enough
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:14:17PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte
I always thought 10^6 was Mib/MiB and 2^10 was Mb/MB to
keep the older
manuals and papers consistent, but that doesn't seem to match the wikipedia... Is the wikipedia correct?
Yes: http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Well there goes the neighborhood... Now I have to talk memory in MiB and GiB and comm and storage in MB and GB.
Anyways datacom and storage has always been base 10, why, well I'll leave that to the conspiracy theorists.
-Ross
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