So you mean most of the parts inside are the same?

Well, my SIP phone provider won't let me do that. I can only set the CID to a number I actually have. If all of the providers enforced that, this wouldn't be a problem at all.

That's an incorrect assumption. I don't agree with the choice either, but there are a lot of people that do scientific work under Windows.

I know of a particular microwave propagation simulation software that only has full support under Windows. It's possible to send the compute work to a Linux system, but all of the visualization and modeling portion is Windows only.

And what about long running software? If someone is running a simulation that takes 2 weeks, do you think it's acceptable to reboot the computer on them forcefully after 13 days?

That's not what I remember using TSR in DOS, and I wrote some.

You'd make your TSR as a function that was called in lieu of the timer interrupt - you'd replace the address the timer int would jump to with the address of your function, and then at the end of your function you'd jump to the original timer interrupt address to let it do it's usual thing. That also allowed multiple TSRs to load; they'd just chain 1 after the other and the last 1 would finally call the normal timer int. As such, the TSR code ran every time the timer interrupt fired.

This is not true at all. Total memory amount can be whatever. What matters is properly loading memory channels in a balanced way. Depending on how you go wrong, and on what hardware, performance hits can be a LOT worse than 20% too.

To match the example, if you had a dual channel memory controller with 4 slots of RAM (2 DIMMs per channel), (2) 2G DIMMs and (2) 1G DIMMs would give you 6GB of balanced memory, assuming you install it correctly (a 2G and a 1G on each channel, ie 1st slot - 2G, 2nd - 1G, 3rd - 2G, 4th - 1G, but this varies by boards)

Hey, I had an HVAC tech fix our AC once by shoving a rock under the control board to flex it - it had a cracked trace that wasn't conducting well. Rocks can fix electronics too!

What ever happened to free speech?

And how do you stop all those mounts if you want to? There is no more netfs initscript on RHEL7 - if you want to stop all nfs mounts, you have to do them 1 by 1, with "systemctl stop mountpoint.mount".

Actually, no. I never got my higher education, primarily for financial reasons. I have a good tech job though. That is because of all the time and effort I spent on my own to learn all this stuff. All the information I learned from is freely out there - anyone with the motivation can do it themselves. Years ago, only the privileged had access to computers. Now you can get a barebones brand new system for a couple of hundred dollars, or a used system for even less.

If not a white guy, who is supposed to be the one complaining about white guys being excluded from all the special programs?

There is definitely inequality in the system, but it goes both ways. As a white male born to middle income parents, I was not eligble for the vast majority of scholarships I seeked. Despite having good grades in honors/AP classes and getting a very high SAT score, I got squat.

Why? It's because so many of the scholarships were specialized to various minority groups and to females. Things like this are why I personally have a problem with education programs targetting specific groups. Equality means equality, or at least it should.

The issues you experienced with colors show that being completely unaware seems unlikely. Maybe someone who is very shy and never mentioned their difficulty with certain things might not find out it wasn't "normal" though.

They screwed up by making 8 pin 12V motherboard power connectors and 8 pin 12V PCIe power connectors nearly identical, but with opposite polarity.

You end up with 12V connected straight to ground and vice versa on most of the pins. The connectors do have keyed pins, but it doesn't take too much extra force to plug the wrong one in. I've seen the results from plenty of otherwise bright people frying motherboards, GPUs, and power supplies.

Or spend a lot less, and buy skull candy earbuds.

I got talk&text working on mine (also a Samsung S3) flashing it myself, but haven't gotten the data working.

I've found someone that does remote flashing, and am going to have them do it for me. I will have them do it from a VM I set up, and will log all usb traffic, so I might be able to figure out what was done from that.