[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 06/29/2010 07:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:

> I have:
> CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3

Hm. I've never seen that flag before.  My k8 supports only sse2.

> AFAIK -fomit-frame-pointer should be perfectly safe, at the only cost of
> making debugging harder. I already thought about removing it anyway, so my
> bug reports will make more sense. BTW, does anyone know _how_ _much_ this
> flag is suposed to seed things up, is it even noticeable?

I've never been able to see any difference, so I don't use omit-fp. But, the
main cpu-intensive app I use is gcc, and I admit I've never actually measured
the difference.

> Uh, I just hate web clients. That's what I have a desktop environment for,

I agree completely, but the Software-As-A-Service paradigm is getting a lot
of attention from M$ *and* google as a more profitable alternative to selling
shrink-wrapped software like M$-Office. (M$ ran out of good ideas to persuade
people to buy new versions of Office many years ago, IMHO.)

When companies that rich and powerful push web-only services as the answer to
their revenue prayers, I suspect they may be able to win.

I hate web-mail, and I always use pop3 or imap when I can, but I can't force
my employer to offer those services if they've decided that running a web-
mail server is cheaper.  I've tried many times, but I'm losing the battle.

If the trend continues, only port 80 will be in use in a few years.  Will the
black hat hackers be unhappy about that?  Dunno, but I'd guess not.