If you want to learn more about futurememorytechnologies which could replace today's SDRAM and flash-memory try searching for "MRAM", "FeRAM" and "PCRAM". The latter is probably the most promising one due to the (expected) ease of design and manufacturing ("Samsung says that it will enter full-scale production with the technology in 2006").
More information about phase-change (->PCRAM) materials can be found at E*PCOS website.
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That does not hold for simple HTTP-auth, of course.
If you want to learn more about future memory technologies which could replace today's SDRAM and flash-memory try searching for "MRAM", "FeRAM" and "PCRAM". The latter is probably the most promising one due to the (expected) ease of design and manufacturing ("Samsung says that it will enter full-scale production with the technology in 2006").
More information about phase-change (->PCRAM) materials can be found at E*PCOS website.
Fujitsu's MPG-Series HDDs experience a similar problem (>90% failure rate due to defective chips; see The Register).
Fortunately, there is an unofficial tool available to recover all of your lost data.