Comments on: People wonder why I hate Windows http://popey.com/blog/2008/08/14/People_wonder_why_I_hate_Windows/ DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM!! Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: popey http://popey.com/blog/2008/08/14/People_wonder_why_I_hate_Windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1961 popey Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:30:43 +0000 #comment-1961 Interesting. Can you do an "lspci" and "lshw" and post it somewhere. Perhaps it has a different chipset than mine? Interesting. Can you do an “lspci” and “lshw” and post it somewhere. Perhaps it has a different chipset than mine?

]]> By: popey http://popey.com/blog/2008/08/14/People_wonder_why_I_hate_Windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1960 popey Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:27:26 +0000 #comment-1960 Sadly it's a chipset issue. I have installed 64-bit Ubuntu and tried the 32-bit PAE kernel and it still can't see more than ~3.3GiB RAM :( Sadly it’s a chipset issue. I have installed 64-bit Ubuntu and tried the 32-bit PAE kernel and it still can’t see more than ~3.3GiB RAM :(

]]> By: Anon http://popey.com/blog/2008/08/14/People_wonder_why_I_hate_Windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 Anon Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:27:10 +0000 #comment-1959 (I forgot to say that under a 64 bit Linux I can see all 4Gbytes of my RAM on this Portege) (I forgot to say that under a 64 bit Linux I can see all 4Gbytes of my RAM on this Portege)

]]> By: Anon http://popey.com/blog/2008/08/14/People_wonder_why_I_hate_Windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1958 Anon Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:19:14 +0000 #comment-1958 I've just stumbled across your blog because I was wondering what was in the the 3.80 BIOS update over 3.70 for a Toshiba Portege M400 :) I suspect the "not seeing all the RAM thing" might be down to you using a 32 bit kernel which didn't have PAE (judging from your uname output). It would have been more interesting to see if a 64 bit boot CD showed more as that would immediately say if that was the problem (although by now who knows what. (I too am a Linux user as it happens and yes, that Windows EXE is a pain. I just wish there were release notes for these updates) I’ve just stumbled across your blog because I was wondering what was in the the 3.80 BIOS update over 3.70 for a Toshiba Portege M400 :) I suspect the “not seeing all the RAM thing” might be down to you using a 32 bit kernel which didn’t have PAE (judging from your uname output). It would have been more interesting to see if a 64 bit boot CD showed more as that would immediately say if that was the problem (although by now who knows what.

(I too am a Linux user as it happens and yes, that Windows EXE is a pain. I just wish there were release notes for these updates)

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