Ten Thousand Kilometers

[deptfordmarmoset]

About 2 megarods, I think.

I don't think I've had a megarod since I was a teenager...now it's a mebirod. (Pronounced ''maybe rod'')

 

[vorsprung]

Not to me it wasn't.
And 1MB of Ram is certainly not 1000K.

Certain hard drive manufacturers found they could be made to look better by adding a few extra MB by rounding the MB down to to the 1000 K.

I respect your SI unit thing but the de facto size of a megabyte is 1024*1024. If you tried sizing your disks using the SI units you'd end up with a nasty problem

jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ df
Filesystem          1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1            37017868  14536024  20601440  42% /
none                    245620      316    245304  1% /dev
none                    249852      512    249340  1% /dev/shm
none                    249852        88    249764  1% /var/run
none                    249852        0    249852  0% /var/lock
none                    249852        0    249852  0% /lib/init/rw
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ df -m
Filesystem          1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1                36151    14196    20119  42% /
none                      240        1      240  1% /dev
none                      244        1      244  1% /dev/shm
none                      244        1      244  1% /var/run
none                      244        0      244  0% /var/lock
none                      244        0      244  0% /lib/init/rw

 

[beastie]

To quote Homer Simpson again..............


........."aaaaggggghhhhh Nerds"