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Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed
An anonymous reader writes "A Google study of DRAM errors in their data centers found that they are hundreds to thousands of times more common than has been previously believed. Hard errors may be the most common failure type. The DIMMs themselves appear to be of good quality, and bad mobo design may be the biggest problem." Here is the study (PDF), which Google engineers published with a researcher from the University of Toronto.
I would suspect that it has no bearing on you at all. Simply chanting "Gentoo Gentoo Gentoo" should cure any and all hardware errors. You're safe, AC.
I'll keep this fool occupied, someone go call the guys in white coats for me.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
was only a problem for government computers.
Nullius in verba
If you use Gentoo, you'll have to make your own DRAM from the schematics.
You know, maybe googling it isn't the best idea in this case. Memory errors and all...
It makes the problem magically go away by redirecting his attention to a catchy new gadget.
Ezekiel 23:20