On 2023-06-12 at 17:47, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/6/23 04:52, The Wanderer wrote:
>> I have to apologize; I completely misremembered the name of the program >> that I was referencing, probably because of the filenames I store its >> output under. hwinfo is absolutely not it. I would not consider output >> such as you presented to be appropriately readable for human >> consumption. >> >> Rather, I got the records I'm looking at from the program 'lshw'. >> > Okay - so the equivalent output that describes the memory, from lshw, is > > " > *-memory > description: System Memory > physical id: 2f > slot: System board or motherboard > size: 128GiB > capabilities: ecc > configuration: errordetection=multi-bit-ecc > *-bank:0 > description: RIMM DDR4 Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5 ns) > product: M393A2G40DB0-CPB > vendor: Samsung > physical id: 0 > serial: 400F4723 > slot: DIMM1 > size: 16GiB > width: 64 bits > clock: 2133MHz (0.5ns) <snip seven more banks> > which may appear to be more "human" understandable, for expressing > the capacity of each DIMM card in GiB, rather than in bytes, Actually, that isn't what I found more readable about this. It's more the separate indented blocks for each distinct item being described, and the use of lowercase rather than ALL_CAPS field labels, that makes the difference. > but, I had no problem in finding and understanding the applicable > output for describing the RAM component of the hardware. > > If being able to adequately interpret the output from hwinfo, makes > me other than human, well, such is life. Oh, certainly not. I can read the other myself, it's just that I understand myself as doing so through the lens of "thinking like a computer", similarly to the mindset I find myself in when reading source code. > Both utilities work, and, work sufficiently. > > hwinfo is simply less pretty than lshw. > > But, it nevertheless, works. It certainly does. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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