Re: Assorted spelling fixes

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Francois Gouget  wrote:
> > It's more ambiguous for e.g. file or disk sizes where drive vendors 
> > often use 1000 based units,
>
> <offtopic>
>
> And it's getting even more confusing. Some time ago I bought a 60 GB SSD 
> which was really 60 * 1024 * 1024 KB. That makes sense since SSDs are 
> after all more like DIMMS than hard drives. But more recently I bought a 
> 240 GB SSD which turned out to be 240,000,000 KB.
>
> So for SSDs there's no telling what GB means anymore :-(

That's been always a trick HDD vendors were playing for decades to
fool the users, and it has nothing todo with the actual mening of
those abbrevations.