Re: Re: advice on amd64

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

|>  Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here 
|>   is simply...sad.
|>
|>  If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n 

Sigh ... suppresses irritation.

But thank you very much for this advice:

|>                            go with a 32bit kernel with PAE
|>   ("bigmem"), and be aware that any one application can only use 4GB
|>  of that 6GB, though the kernel can use it all.

I actually very occasionally have a professional need for flash
animations.  I'm happy to use gnash for this, but the last time I tried
it, it wasn't quite ready. For YouTube, I mostly  use WebM-enabled
Google Chrome 

Jim