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On Wednesday 05 March 2008, cypherstrong wrote: |
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> Of course :) |
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> the test for amd64 could be fast with a livecd |
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That might suit someone who's sitting with a new and unknown box on the |
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desk in front of them. I usually have to discover this for machines |
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that are in some unknown location and to which I only have ssh access. |
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Rebooting is most certainly not an option, even if i could get a CD into |
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them. If I do that, the SLA kicks in and that will bankrupt the |
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company... |
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> ... or with cpuinfo |
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> and good knowledge of flags |
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The combination of what flags does what and which model number is which |
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actual cpu product is much much more complex than I ever thought :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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