[ann] About Yahoo Mail

[Heinzoliger 0]

Yahoo just started to increase the capacities of their mailbox.

Now, you can have 100Mo of mail for free.

Better, you can send a 10Mo-file with a mail.

Tomorrow, all of the mailbox should have the 100 Mo.

If you want more, you can pay for 2 Go.

Great news, isn't it ?

[Ludge 0]

lol, bring on the storage wars!

out of interest, why do you write Mo and Go rather than MB and GB?

[Heinzoliger 0]

out of interest, why do you write Mo and Go rather than MB and GB?

because I'm french and I didn't pay attention. sorry.

in french :

b=bit=b

o=octet=B=8b

[Unbeliever 0]

Originally posted by Heinzoliger@Jun 15 2004, 01:53 PM

Yahoo just started to increase the capacities of their mailbox.

Now, you can have 100Mo of mail for free.

Better, you can send a 10Mo-file with a mail.

Tomorrow, all of the mailbox should have the 100 Mo.

If you want more, you can pay for 2 Go.

Great news, isn't it ?

whohoo!

great news!

thanks for the heads up

[wizard 0]

Originally posted by Heinzoliger@Jun 15 2004, 09:24 AM

in french :

b=bit=b

o=octet=B=8b

You know, I was just wondering that. I've seen it a couple other places also. And thanks for the info!

[Heinzoliger 0]

you're welcome

[thehundredthone 0]

that's confusing me...

where does MiB come in then (after the after the aliens though )

MiB / 8 = Mb... or something...

[dav 0]

MiB = Mebibyte

Mb or Mbit = Megabit

MB = Megabye

IEC international standard of 1998 suggests using special prefixes for binary multiplies used in data processing and transmission, i.e. kibi (1024) instead of kilo (1000).

Note the distinction between a megabyte (about one million bytes) and a megabit (about one million bits). A megabit is abbreviated as Mbit (preferably) or as Mb with a lower case "b". There are eight bits in one byte, so a megabyte (MB) is eight times as large as a megabit (Mb or Mbit).

[thehundredthone 0]

so does 1 mebibyte equal a megabit?

could someone be kind enough to post something like a conversion chart for these four horrid little terms? :6

Mebibyte, Megabit, Megabyte, MegaOctet (??)

[Fissy 0]

>> so does 1 mebibyte equal a megabit?

i think for most people yes

the only difference is if you are a hard drive manufacturer, or just about anyone who wants to con you, then a megab* would be 1000000 times the bit or byte.

[bryantm3 0]

yeah, my iPod is in french and it notes the remaining space in Go, it says somthing like

6.4 Go used, 2.8 Go Remaining.

[cottoncandy 0]

But that zeamail site is offering 1gig storage now...