Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

[Christopher Chan]

Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:51:16 pm Christopher Chan wrote:
>   
>> That has been the case for years and only recently have I heard this 
>> nonsense of base10 whateverbyte units in stuff other than misleading but 
>> covered my behind disk labels.
>>     
>
> The IEEE decided nearly a decade ago that instead of redefining the SI units 
> (which were base 10 long before the invention of digital computers), we should 
> have our own prefixes for 1024-based numbering schemes.
>
>   

Oh did something like that happen? Too bad no operating system before 
and after ever paid attention to that. Unless Ubuntu wants to be the 
first oddball.