GiB vs. GB

[Stefanos Harhalakis]

On Saturday 03 November 2007, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
>   I believe that kde needs a KB/Byte ratio for some major categories like:
>
> * Network speed (NIC speed): Always 1Kbit == 1000bit
> * Network transfer (File transfer speed): Configurable
> * Ram size: Always 1Kb == 1024bytes
> * Ram usage: Always (?) 1kb == 1024bytes
> * Disk size: Configurable
> * etc...

  Apologies for the reply to self. I'll try to save some replies:

  When a program copies a file from the network or from a local disk, it 
should display the same values. So Network transfer speed should use the same 
metrics as disk read/write speed (which should (?) use the same metrics as 
Disk size). So, either the network transfer speeds should use 1024b == 1Kb or 
the disk size should use 1000b=1kb. 

  Also, whenever something is measured in bits, it should use the 
1Kbit==1000bit ratio, or there will be bug reports.