base 2 or base 10.

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 27-03-10 22:48, Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Steve Flynn<anothermindbomb at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I note with some amusement that Slashdot and several other sites are
>> alight with the news that Ubuntu are about to provide the option to
>> display filesizes in base 10 or base 2.
>>
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/27/1451238/Ubuntu-Will-Switch-To-Base-10-File-Size-Units-In-Future-Release?art_pos=6
>>
>> Any positive or negative reactions to this from the users here? Moving
>> the buttons from right to left caused some people pain - how do you
>> feel about this "improvement" to the UI?
>
> Hit send too early...
>
> Personally, I welcome the correction to using kilo to mean 1024 but
> the old computer science degree in me is spinning in its grave at this
> travesty of injustice
>
>
>

If you RTFA you would know that kilo = 1000 and kibi = 1024.
The old computer science degree in you should welcome our new binary 
prefix overlords.