Brett, Makes sense. Maybe I did over-react. But Thor's virtual girlfriend comment pushed me over the edge so I'm taking a break from NetBSD and replies from NetBSD.org will bounce.
Thanks, Jason M. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 31, 2014, at 2:06 AM, Brett Lymn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 09:44:20PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I implied nothing of the sort. I asked a question (read my original post): >> >>> Not to advocate i386 over amd64, but doesn't NetBSD/i386 support PAE and >>> thus can access >2GB of RAM? > > Roght. Which is, in itself, rather vague. I was trying to clarify that. > >> I was hoping that someone would provide helpful information about PAE >> support in i386. What I got was cryptic and would have required that I >> spend a fair amount of time reading about PAE to actually understand it. > > Or you could have asked for a better explanation. What I wrote was a > genuine attempt by me to provide some further information about the > limitations of PAE. > >> Usually people here are helpful. You were dismissive and rude. > > That was not intentional. > >> I apologize >> for responding in kind, but this was the first time I was ever unhappy >> that I posted to a NetBSD mailing list. > > Right, now here is a trick - unless someone is outright abusing you, > just assume that they are trying to help and if you find something too > cryptic then just ask for clarification. > > -- > Brett Lymn > Staple Guns: because duct tape doesn't make that KerCHUNK sound - xkcd.com
