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From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:43:25 -0500
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On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:31 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:26 AM, matt <maht-9fans@maht0x0r.net>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>  it supports 4gb of memory.
>>
>> of non-ECC memory, so nice terminal, bad server
>>
>>
>> "the probability of having at least one bit error in 4 gigabyes of
>> memory at
>> sea level on planet Earth in 72 hours is over 95%."
>
>
> humorous and true story. The Big Mac system at Virginia Tech could
> tell you if it was day or night. There was a dramatic increase in
> memory error rates during the day. I saw a very nice graph showing the
> effect.
Do you have a link to that graph? may be an article too?
>
> Seems the earth is a pretty good shield for nasty high energy
> particles from our local light source :-)
>
> So just run it as a server at night and you may be fine!
>
> ron
>