Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p.

[mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser}]

> So in general your best bet is to see 1Kb/s as 1.000 bits per second
and
> 1Mb/s as 1000Kb/s or 1.000.000b/s. As most technologies will stick to
> that. Though off course through the ages a lot of things have been
altered
> it and therefor have added to the confusion.

I'd rather think of 1 kpbs than 1 Kbps...
K is Kelvin, and nothing else (IIRC). K is no prefix.

My proposal: humans should start using sedecimal as
primary numbering system. (And forget about octal
as fast as possible - it is referred way too often in UNIX!)

Greetings from snowful Bonn (Rhein)
-mirabilos