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Re: Download Manager

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Le 08/05/2017 à 11:55, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
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> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> "Merchant's MB". [...]
>> May I use that quote from time to time?
>
> Sure. It's a translation from ancient german "Verkaeufermeg", an expression
> from the time when the disks reached gigabyte sizes and the disk sellers
> began to count in SI units, which gave them 7.4 percent larger numbers.

Disks capacity was labelled with SI prefixes (not units, byte|octet are 
not SI units) before it reached gigabyte sizes. The smaller hard disk 
drive I still have is labelled 270 MB, and its capacity is 270,054,400 
bytes (CHS 959*11*50). My other under-GB hard disks are labelled similarly.

> Up to then, only SI purists like physics teachers insisted that kilo is
> 1000 and not 1024.

Not only SI purists but also networking/telecom guys. 1 kbit/s has 
always been consistantly 1000 bits per second.

> Blu-ray discs labels say "25 GB" but the media offer only 25025314816 bytes,
> which shows that the thrifty merchants give us not more than 17 floppies
> of programmer's rebate.

So you get what's advertised. What are you complaining about ?
Do you just miss the old time when 74' CD-Rs were labelled 650 MB but 
actually contained 650 MiB/680 MB ? I had some CD which were accurately 
labelled 680 MB.

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Re: Download Manager "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-08 10:20 +0200
  Re: Download Manager <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-08 11:00 +0200
    Re: Download Manager "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-08 12:00 +0200
      Re: Download Manager Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-08 12:30 +0200
        Re: Download Manager "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-08 14:50 +0200
      Re: Download Manager <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-08 12:40 +0200
      Re: Download Manager deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 20:00 +0200
  Re: Download Manager Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2017-05-08 12:50 +0200

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