Change file transfer notifications to MB/s?

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#1

Ever since I switched to KDE4 I noticed that file transfers in the notifier are given in MiB/s. After looking at wikipedia i found out it’s a mebibit/s. I have never heard of that and would like to change it to megabits/s so my feable mind can actually understand what it is.

Is that possible and if so how?

#2

Dexter1979 wrote:

> Ever since I switched to KDE4 I noticed that file transfers in the
> notifier are given in MiB/s. After looking at ‘wikipedia’
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units#Mebibit_per_second) i
> found out it’s a mebibit/s. I have never heard of that and would like to
> change it to megabits/s so my feable mind can actually understand what
> it is.

That exact question was raised on opensuse lists:

[opensuse] How to configure konqueror to show KB and MB instead of KiB and
MiB??
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-06/msg01428.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-07/msg00226.html

> Is that possible and if so how?

AFAIK, no.

BTW, it’s the right measure, I see no point to not to use it.

Greetings,

–
Camaleón

#3

And off we go again. If you look well, you see a ‘B’, not a ‘b’. This means we’re talking bytes, not bits.

#4

Knurpht wrote:

> And off we go again. If you look well, you see a ‘B’, not a ‘b’. This
> means we’re talking bytes, not bits.

KDE people is using the right prefix, according to the latest standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60027

Greetings,

–
Camaleón

#5

why would you want to do that? MiB is the correct way to do this

#6

No doubt it is. I just get confused with bits and bytes when it comes to these things. As noted by Knurpht. :wink:

#7

When you have something in bits, divide it by 8 to get the equivalent byte value. Likewise, if you have bytes, multiply it by 8 to get the bit value.

And the ib is just the notation for numbers that are true binary values versus the normalized base 10 values used for marketing., i.e. 1024 vs. 1000.

Really, not vector calculus or anything. Just a matter of number bases and semantics. :wink:

#8

Vector calculus is not that hard :stuck_out_tongue: