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[OT] Octet, byte (was: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row)

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Stefan Weiss wrote:

> On 2012-03-27 18:22, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:31:13 +0200, SAM
>> <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> wrote:
>>> 1st ) 600 ko (with identation)
>>> 2nd ) 300 ko (without any tabulation)
>> […]
> […]
> (BTW, "ko" is short for kilo-octet, which is French for kilobyte)

"Kilo-octet" is not only French, but it is using the exact (but outside of 
French unusual) multiple of the unit of 8-bit based data storage.  The unit 
symbols `o', and `ko', are AFAIK not used outside of French texts, though. 

Also, `kilobyte' is the colloquial but non-standard term for "1024 bytes"; 
the standard and correct expression, per IEC 60027-2 (1999), for 1024 bytes 
is 1 kibibyte (kilo-binary byte; abbreviation: KiB), as one SI kilobyte 
(1 kB) would consist of 1000 bytes (the latter is usually used by 
manufacturers of storage devices, leaving less computer-savvy users to 
wonder where the "remaining space" on the disk went).  See also [1].

"Byte" is more common than "octet" for 8 bits of data because few if any 
contemporary computer systems or storage devices use bytes that do not 
consist of 8 bits [2].  However, for exactness, the term "octet" is used 
e.g. in RFCs (in English language), for example in RFC 4515 "Lightweight 
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): String Representation of Search Filters" 
(2006) [3].


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[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix>
[2] cf. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte>
[3] <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4515>
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IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Lisa Liel <lisa.liel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 12:23 -0700
  Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2012-03-23 21:00 -0800
    Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Lisa Liel <lisa.liel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 09:54 -0700
  Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2012-03-24 10:16 +0100
    Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-24 10:58 +0100
    Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Lisa Liel <lisa.liel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 09:59 -0700
  Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-24 10:29 +0100
    Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-24 11:56 +0100
    Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-24 12:21 +0100
      Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Lisa Liel <lisa.liel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 10:08 -0700
      Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Lisa Liel <lisa.liel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 11:30 -0700
        Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-27 17:23 +0200
      Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-26 13:06 -0700
        Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-27 15:31 +0200
          Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-27 09:22 -0700
            Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-03-27 18:58 +0200
              Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-27 13:39 -0700
              [OT] Octet, byte (was: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-28 21:58 +0200
                Re: [OT] Octet, byte (was: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row) John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-29 14:40 +0100
            Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-27 19:25 +0200
    Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Lisa Liel <lisa.liel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 10:03 -0700
      Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-27 15:39 +0200
  Re: IE very slow when showing/hiding table row Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-03-27 18:47 +1100

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