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Operating Systems BSD Please HELP this stupid lady!! Post 97013 by rhfrommn on Wednesday 25th of January 2006 11:14:59 AM
Old 01-25-2006
Uninstalling FreeBSD won't do you any good, you'll have a useless computer with no operating system at all.

What you need to do is just install Windows over it. The Windows installer will happily trash the FreeBSD and write over everything so you have a Windows comptuer with no remaining traces of FreeBSD on it.

Your friend Janos sounds like a real censored. It is your computer, if you want the root password he should give it to you, or else help you put a different OS on it for you. No matter what *HE* thinks the best OS is, it isn't his place to make that decision for you and your kids. He is right that FreeBSD or any other Unix based OS could do everything you need it to, but if he isn't willing to spend the time finishing the build and teaching you what you need to know he has no business trashing your computer for you.

Moderator's note: While I share your evaluation of Janos' actions, we try to watch our language here. --- Perderabo

Last edited by Perderabo; 01-25-2006 at 12:46 PM.. Reason: Tone down the language a bit.
 

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papi_native_avail - provides detailed information for PAPI native events. Synopsis Description papi_native_avail is a PAPI utility program that reports information about the native events available on the current platform. A native event is an event specific to a specific hardware platform. On many platforms, a specific native event may have a number of optional settings. In such cases, the native event and the valid settings are presented, rather than every possible combination of those settings. For each native event, a name, a description, and specific bit patterns are provided. Options o --help, -h print this help message o -d display detailed information about native events o -e EVENTNAME display detailed information about named native event o -i EVENTSTR include only event names that contain EVENTSTR o -x EVENTSTR exclude any event names that contain EVENTSTR o --noumasks suppress display of Unit Mask information Processor-specific options o --darr display events supporting Data Address Range Restriction o --dear display Data Event Address Register events only o --iarr display events supporting Instruction Address Range Restriction o --iear display Instruction Event Address Register events only o --opcm display events supporting OpCode Matching o --nogroups suppress display of Event grouping information Bugs There are no known bugs in this utility. If you find a bug, it should be reported to the PAPI Mailing List at ptools-perfapi@ptools.org. Version 5.2.0.0 Tue Jun 17 2014 papi_native_avail(1)
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