Kibibyte is a mildly silly word; mebibyte and gibibyte are positively stupid…
Nevertheless, `KiB'/`MiB' does appear to be catching on very slowly. (I was surprised to find it in the man page of a relatively well-known utility the other week, but I now can't remember what that utility was. The new release of Lynx apparently gives you a choice between kB and KiB to appear in the progress report as you download something.)
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Date: 2004-02-25 07:32 am (UTC)Nevertheless, `KiB'/`MiB' does appear to be catching on very slowly. (I was surprised to find it in the man page of a relatively well-known utility the other week, but I now can't remember what that utility was. The new release of Lynx apparently gives you a choice between kB and KiB to appear in the progress report as you download something.)
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Date: 2004-02-25 07:37 am (UTC)They've infested Linux's ifconfig and also at least some bits of the kernel.
...so, uh, how big is my hard disk?