[Chugalug] OT: kill me please

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I might if I knew what that was?

----- Ed King <chevyiinova at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I recently had trouble running something in a VM...   I plead the 5th on what it 
> was I was trying to do but I will say that my "guest" application would not run 
> because it HAD to have sse4 and the vm nor the host cpu had sse4 (I think it had 
> sse2 and/or sse3). 
> 
> 
> so...    anyone got a cheeeeeep pc for sale with a cpu that has sse4?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Phil Sieg <phil.sieg at gmail.com>
> To: Chattanooga Unix Gnu Android Linux Users Group <chugalug at chugalug.org>
> Sent: Tue, February 5, 2013 10:41:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Chugalug] OT:  kill me please
> 
> Ed,
> 
> A funny and true story:
> 
> ALL of the cell phone flashing and diagnosis tools that my cell phone factories 
> use for uploading new firmware into phones, or tracing software/firmware issues 
> are....
> 
> YEP. You guessed it... Windows XP Only!
> 
> I keep an XP laptop here that is for no other purpose than flashing phones when 
> we are doing software revisions.
> 
> So far I have been unable to get the damned tools to run on a VM...
> 
> All HAIL XP!
> 
> 
> Phil Sieg
> President
> SeniorTech LLC / snapfōn®
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> phil.sieg at seniortechllc.com
> 
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> 
> "The computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. It's the 
> equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."
> 
> 
> Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Ed King <chevyiinova at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> "because windows xp is unsupported, its ok to install it"
> >
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