> Except the definition of GB these days is 1000 MB, not 1024.  Yup, the
> standard changed and only us old farts still like to use 1024.
> 
> 1 GB = 10**9 B
> 
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Wow, didn't know that. But on a Solaris 9 system a K still means 1024:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=out.bin count=1 bs=1k  
1+0 records in
1+0 records out

$ ls -l out.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 rfang    systems      1024 Oct  1 16:01 out.bin

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