| PanzerMKZ | eden: what are you trying to do? |
| Dr_willis | the_giver, for most common users - thers not a lot to gain by using 64bit |
| rpdillon | The_Giver: I don't notice a diff but I always think "Damn it, I bought a 64 bit processor, I might as well use all 64 bits!" Hehe - its kind of silly. |
| drizgrl | 64 bit is useless for me :) |
| Dr_willis | Now perhaps if you were doing some major # crunching. or other heavy tasks.. perhaps it may be worth while. |
| boow | a slight speed increase almost not noticeable |
| eden | Um... trying to sequence DNA I guess. That's what Apple uses in their speed advertisements |
| rpdillon | The biggest advantage for 64 bit is if you need to address more than 2GB RAM per process...then it's killer |
| zili | i am downloading the audacious,if it is usfull |
| Dr_willis | Folding@home scores. :) |
| PanzerMKZ | well what if you got more then 4gig ram |
| eden | 2 gigs of ram out to be enough for anyone. |
| rpdillon | eden: lol |
| PanzerMKZ | forget you then |
| drizgrl | out to be? |
| The_Giver | hmm |
| jsizzle | drizgrl: someone on there reported fixing the problem by doing a kernel compile |
| drizgrl | dude |
| PanzerMKZ | I just bought a board that supports 16 gig of ram |
| eden | nah.. I don't have a 64 bit machine and I understand there's not really any reason to buy on at this point. |
| drizgrl | i haven't compiled a linux kernel in years |
| boow | zili, i hope you getting it from ubuntu repos |
| jsizzle | drizgrl: I can help you compile if you need |
| drizgrl | since i ran slackware back in what...1994 probably i don't even remember how |
| Dr_willis | drizgrl, neither have I |
| drizgrl | i am a freebsd guy er girl ! |
| IcemanV9 | zili: sudo aptitude install audacious is what you use? |
| action | drizgrl bats her eyelashes |
| drizgrl | bats her eyelashes |
| rpdillon | Its not bad - Debian has some helpful tools to make it easy |
| jsizzle | drizgrl: make a channel and I'll join it so I don't have to grep all this other chat to help you |
| action | PanzerMKZ laughs at drizgrl/driz |
| PanzerMKZ | laughs at drizgrl/driz |
| drizgrl | well i have 2.6.20-15-generic unless there is a package with a newer kernel, i'm not inclined to stray from generic stuff ok, you sexy beast |
| eden | when you compile the kernel, its all about 'make menuconfig' |