13-05-2005, 03:12
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MiB?
Am I missing something?
What's all this about putting an extra "i" in the middle of MB?
www.hexus.net are at it 24/7 in their news articles ( example) and my BitTorrent client does it too.
What happened to just using "MB" to represent one megabyte?
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13-05-2005, 03:54
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Re: MiB?
Possibly they mean 1,000,000 bytes rather than 1,048,576 ?
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13-05-2005, 08:34
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Re: MiB?
i thought MiB was part of snmp OIDs
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13-05-2005, 09:48
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Re: MiB?
Confused me to, but I found this
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In December 1998, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) approved a new IEC International Standard. Instead of using the metric prefixes for multiples in binary code, the new IEC standard invented specific prefixes for binary multiples made up of only the first two letters of the metric prefixes and adding the first two letters of the word "binary". Thus, for instance, instead of Kilobyte (KB) or Gigabyte (GB), the new terms would be kibibyte (KiB) or gibibyte (GiB). The new IEC International Standards, which are not commonly used yet, are included below.
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From http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/
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13-05-2005, 11:23
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Re: MiB?
There was me thinking this was a thread about the Galaxy defenders.
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13-05-2005, 11:26
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[NTHW] pc clan
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Re: MiB?
Me too..........obviously I'm not geek enough! 
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13-05-2005, 11:32
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Re: MiB?
Gibibyte? Gibberish is closer 
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13-05-2005, 13:28
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Re: MiB?
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Originally Posted by Richard M
Am I missing something?
What's all this about putting an extra "i" in the middle of MB?
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Protecting your memory from the **** of the universe?!
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13-05-2005, 13:42
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Re: MiB?
There always confusing us by making things more confusing than they orginally confused
see what they done to me 
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13-05-2005, 20:22
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Re: MiB?
I have more self-respect than to use the terms kibibyte and gibibyte. I mean - please  What's the betting that the idiot that dreamt up the idea knows nothing about PCs?
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