Re: Configure.help editorial policy

Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27T13:48:04Z

vojtech@suse.cz (Vojtech Pavlik) wrote on 20.12.01 in <20011220234939.A32287@suse.cz>:

> Now my opinion on this would be: By sticking KiB everywhere nothing is
> helped. To the knowledgeable, it's nothing new that memory is measured
> in binary units, while ethernet speed in decimal ones. To the newbie,
> KiB is about as cryptical as KB and he'll never know which is which,
> because as a newbie (s)he didn't read the standards.

Well, considering that I had to look at half a dozen web pages via Google
to make sure that ethernet did, indeed, use decimal, despite having been
in the industry for about a decade, I'd say that this *would* help.

And the newbie would at least recognize that there is something going on,
learning about which just might be a good idea. And the answer would
presumably come not out of a standard, but out of a FAQ.

> And speaking of the 1 Mbps connection - I fear that in many cases
> that'll be 1024000 bytes per second. What M is that? Binary or decimal?

A lied-about one. These abominations deserve to die, yesterday.
Preferrably messily.

> Who does care?

If you're selling it to me, I certainly do.

MfG Kai