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    <title><![CDATA[Fix file size confusion]]></title>
    <link>http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/21184/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Every application treats file size units in a different way so you never know the real size of a file or a drive. I.e. my USB device shows up as 4.1 GB when mounted on my desktop, but as 3.77 GB in GParted, while the system monitor gives me 3.8 GiB - that's confusing!<br />
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<b>[426 votes] Solution #1: Fix applications to use the same units</b>
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<b>[92 votes] Solution #2: Let the user choose</b>
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<b>[-54 votes] Solution #3: Use the binary prefixes by default</b>
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<b>[-5 votes] Solution #4: Ignore SI advice and use common practice</b>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from coolen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Solution #2, but use binary units by default, please.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from stoffel</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Sidenote: according to Ars Technica the same bug has been fixed in the latest Mac OS X 10.6.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Djhg2000</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Default should be 1 kB = 1000 Bytes, as k = kilo = 1000.<br />When you say 1 km you do not mean 1024 meters, right?<br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from skipper</title>
  <description><![CDATA[There is a policy draft for solving this problem: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy<br /><br />Feel free to improve the draft or to add a comment or suggestion to it.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Gaz Davidson</title>
  <description><![CDATA[This will potentially suck. Please don't use base 10 for file sizes.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Penguin Guy</title>
  <description><![CDATA[@Gaz Davidson - '1010000 GB Media' - Bad Idea]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Gaz Davidson</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Haha, I suspect you know what I meant.<br />I don't understand why this is being downvoted so hard, does nobody else here assume a kilobyte is 1024 bytes?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from yzarc</title>
  <description><![CDATA[since my first contact with computer I learned that kilobyte = 1024 bytes, the reason for this? simple computers work with binary and the closest 2^n to 1000 is 2^10 = 1024. I don't see any reason to change this. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from nosoupforyou</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Keep the default display as using powers of 2 since that's what the majority of PC users have seen for years, and 1 byte = 2^3 bits, not 10^1 bits, so it makes sense to stick with powers of 2. It's still a good idea to display KiB instead of kB to avoid confusion for people and apps that insist on using powers of 10 since that's what kilo is everywhere else.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from miamibc</title>
  <description><![CDATA[For me, kilobyte=1024bytes. I think best solution is allowing user to change format of globally used abbreviations by yourself. Put selection of date, time, size (including selection of base), decimals (decimal sign, number of decimals), currency and so on formats into localization options in system preferences. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from theonebshaw</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I recognize that currently in the computer world K = 1024 99% of the time but this is unnecessary and improper therefore I vote assume K = 1000 as that is how it SHOULD be... same reason I use the Metric system for everything I do even though I live in the states, because it's the system that SHOULD be used. So long as we use only one or the other I'll be happy but I'd much rather see base 10 used.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from andrew</title>
  <description><![CDATA[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from krytol</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Let the users choose but please keep default as powers of 2, this is how computers work, in binary, and users should not be tricking themselves that their hdd or cd-drives have more space than there really is.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Fujik</title>
  <description><![CDATA[1=1024<br />It's default for all since begining of PC time. Are you going crazy? And no other problems in linux?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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