[AusNOG] Solar flare

[David Connors]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> Even PC manufacturers learnt the error in their ways with using parity
> memory many, many years ago. Of course they took the opposite approach and
> just removed the parity.  You can't get parity errors if you don't have
> parity - and you can always just blame the resulting crash on Microsoft!!
>
> So if your computer crashes in the next day or two, blame the
> manufacturer, not Microsoft...  (If you're using a Mac.. well..)
>

MS introduced a 'soft' requirement of ECC memory in PCs for OEMs to get the
'Designed for Windows' logo around the release of Vista. Don't know what
happened to the requirement moving forward or if it will become mandatory.

Not sure there will be much ECC in use now PCs are 600 bucks.

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