Catch-22 : curiouser and curiouser -- but better

[Bill Davidsen]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:25:26 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>> One answer, the PAE kernel is used for 32 bit operation with 4GB or more
>> of ram. Lets you see the whole memory.
> 
> 	Well, I looked at both the system-monitor and lshw-gui -- and got 
> very different answers. One tells me I have 2.8 GB of (unspecified) 
> "memory," while the other tells me 4 GB of "system memory," with two 
> entries for RAM, neither of which says (in a form I can read, at least) 
> how much. One just says 32; the other gives "widths" of 64 for the cpu, 
> and 32 for each of its RAMs.
> 
> 	My guess is that I might as well remove the PAE -- if I could, 
> without initiating yet another catastrophe; I did big damage a few years 
> by removing kernels wrong somehow. Probably better to let well enough 
> alone -- especially if never using either eventually gets them 
> expired ....
> 
>>    "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
>> the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
> 
> 	If only more people would realize that! 
> 
> 	(I also like the version that says something like "Never 
> attribute to malevolence what can be explained by mere stupidity" -- and 
> Schiller's "Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens." (In 
> Asimov's translation, "Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in 
> vain."))
> 
If you want to know what the system can use, just type "free" and look at the 
total memory.

And not "stupidity," but rather "incompetence." They are not the same.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot