Dan Gillmor is complaining about that old chestnut, the discrepancy between Hard Drive sizes as sold based on 1 GB=109 bytes and computers that report sized based on 1 GB = 230 bytes. This is explained by the NIST in this helpful note that defines the SI prefixes of kibi, mebi and gibi for 210, 220 and 230 respectively.
I therefore propose that complaining about this issue henceforth be known as 'kibibitzing'
Wednesday 14 November 2001
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