Units reported by ifconfig

[Jan Claeys]

Op maandag 14-07-2008 om 10:53 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Scott James
Remnant:
> Since ifconfig deals with bytes streamed, you can arguably claim it
> should be multiples of 1,024 or multiples of 1,000.  Someone just needs
> to decide.

Traditionally, bandwidth has always been measured in multiples of 10,
not multiples of 2.


> We absolutely _do_not_ use the "KiB", "MiB" or "GiB" forms anywhere!
> These should never be displayed, they are wrong for many reasons[0],
> have never been adopted outside of the pedant community, and simply
> confuse users.

Well, KiB, MiB, etc. are on track to gain SI & ISO status once the
current SI (and later ISO) standardisation track is finalized...
(They are CIE "standards" already.)


BTW: they don't really confuse users IME, quite the contrary (and my
experience with using KiB/MiB/GiB/etc. predates the existence of
Ubuntu!).


-- 
Jan Claeys