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On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: |
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> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon |
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<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > > thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. |
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> > There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold enough of your |
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> > hand. |
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> Oh right, what was I thinking, giving the users an optional tool to make |
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> their lives marginally easier after they've tired of trying to remember for |
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> their thirtieth install just which of these inane x86 SIMD instructions are |
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> supported by cpu x? I'm rolling my eyes over here, guys; that was uncalled |
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> for and you know it. |
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remember? a short look into /proc/cpuinfo tells you that. Or just: |
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if it is amd, it has 3dnow. Everything recent has sse and sse2. SSE3,4,ssse3 - |
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check cpuinfo. |
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> Then again, it might be egg on my face for thinking that civilised |
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> discourse was possible on a mailing list. :/ |
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well, it is civilised. Nobody did a personal attack. But if you think you are |
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attacked because people disagree with you or don't think that your idea is a |
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good one - well.. then you should not be part of discussions, true. |
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