Strange units in conky (KiB, MiB, GiB)

Question

Conky is working fine here (using KDE), but the units are strange: KiB, MiB, GiB. I want kB, MB and GB instead and also a fixed number of digits. How can i format that? I only found a variable for padding percentage-values.
Here's my conkyrc:
background yes
cpu_avg_samples 5
net_avg_samples 5
out_to_console no
font 7x13
own_window_transparent no
own_window_colour hotpink
xftalpha 1.0
on_bottom yes
mail_spool $MAIL
update_interval 2
own_window no
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 5 5
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders yes
stippled_borders 0
border_margin 10
border_width 2
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
alignment top_left
gap_x 20
gap_y 20
use_spacer yes
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
TEXT
${color #CCCCCC}${time %A, %d %B %Y} ${alignr}${time %T}
${color #ffccaa}SYSTEM
${color white}${hr 1}
${color #888888}Kernel: ${color #CCCCCC}$kernel ${color #888888}${alignr}Uptime: ${color #CCCCCC}$uptime
${color #888888}CPU : ${color #CCCCCC}$freq_g GHz $cpu% ${alignr}${i2c temp 2} C
${color #888888} ${cpugraph 15,210 ff0000 ff00ff}
${color #888888}RAM : ${color #CCCCCC}$memmax $memperc% ${membar 6}
${color #888888}Swap : ${color #CCCCCC}$swapmax $swapperc% ${swapbar 6}
${color #ffccaa}DISK
${color white}${hr 1}
${color #888888}/ : ${color #CCCCCC}${fs_size /} ${fs_free_perc /} % ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color #888888}/boot : ${color #CCCCCC}${fs_size /boot} ${fs_free_perc /boot} % ${fs_bar 6 /boot}
${color #888888}/tmp : ${color #CCCCCC}${fs_size /tmp} ${fs_free_perc /tmp} % ${fs_bar 6 /tmp}
${color #888888}/home : ${color #CCCCCC}${fs_size /home} ${fs_free_perc /home} % ${fs_bar 6 /home}
${color #888888}/data : ${color #CCCCCC}${fs_size /mnt/data} ${fs_free_perc /mnt/data} % ${fs_bar 6 /mnt/data}
${color #ffccaa}PROCESSES
${color white}${hr 1}
${color #888888}Processes: ${color #CCCCCC}$processes ${color #888888}Running: ${color #CCCCCC}$running_processes
${color #888888}Name PID CPU% MEM%
${color #CCCCCC}${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color #CCCCCC}${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color #CCCCCC}${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color #CCCCCC}${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${color #CCCCCC}${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${color #CCCCCC}${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}
${color #ffccaa}NETWORK
${color white}${hr 1}
${color #888888}Down : ${color #CCCCCC}${downspeed eth0} kb/s ${color #888888}Up : ${color #CCCCCC}${upspeed eth0} kb/s
${color #888888}Total: ${color #CCCCCC}${totaldown eth0} ${color #888888}Total: ${color #CCCCCC}${totalup eth0}

Answer 1

Well ... I've read the WiKi post and my conclusion is: it is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.
Adding those stupid letters does not help at all the end users. Is not a matter of name what confuses people, it is that they do not know what the different powers of 10 mean.