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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:16:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640610242216u1370d9cfo29e53457826fc0ba@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161751643.22203.19.camel@orpheus>

On 10/24/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> yes, a 320 "gigabyte" hard drive, as opposed to a 320
> "gibibyte"[1][2][3] hard drive.  Technically 1 gigabyte is one million
> bytes, but computers have always used 1GB = 1024kB = 1024*1024B.

I like your math.  It gives me 2TB of RAM in my laptop! :-P

-Richard
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25  4:12 [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB? Grant
2006-10-25  4:36 ` kashani
2006-10-25  4:41 ` Jamie
2006-10-25  4:47 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-25  5:16   ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-10-25  5:28   ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-25  5:10 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-25  5:12   ` Richard Fish
2006-10-25  5:26     ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-25 15:57     ` Grant
2006-10-25  5:15   ` Jeff Rollin
2006-10-25  5:16     ` Jeff Rollin
2006-10-25  5:26 ` Norberto Bensa

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