Wouldn't placing such a device on your car constitute a tresspass to land?

Why are you replacing the motherboards yourself? With my T61p, when something in it died - motherboard needed replacing - I called up IBM and told em it's broke. Something like 19 hours later, DHL has a box for me at my door to ship the laptop out in. I put the laptop in the box and call up DHL to schedule picking up the shipping box. The same DHL guy is back 15 minutes later and takes the box. 23 hours later, same DHL delivery guy is back on my doorstep with my repaired laptop. This was with the standard warranty option when buying the laptop. My mind was blown on just how quickly it got fixed. Apparently got shipped from MI to Memphis, repaired, and shipped back in less than 24 hours.

Does this level of support not exist anymore? Otherwise, why are you replacing the motherboards in house - especially if you don't have spare parts readily available. Also, your complaint about the 44 screws? I mean, come'on, tieing the laces on my shoes takes 10 times longer than using velcro, but it's really kinda not a very big deal.

At least the nuclear solution isn't anywhere near as contaminating and destructive to the environment as coal or oil. Think of it as a lesser evil.

The difference between chernobyl's RBMK design and and our operating relics is already rather significant. Also, we have organizations in the US, such as the United States Navy, which are at the forefront of safe reactor design and operation.

VMware has supported 3D acceeleration pass through for years. Works fantastic.

Noone's surprised. Marvell's had a track record of faulty, ill-documented, or bug-plagued parts. Sometimes, I wonder why they still bother. I suppose, someone has to make Realtek look good.

I suck, I meant 4 Gbps.

Only 1, and he did it because he could keep the loud drive cabinet in the basement and use the drives from his bedroom. It was decent gear, too, LSI PCI-E 4GBps card with two multimode transceivers to a JBOD cabinet in the basement.

naw, you mean LSD. Came out of Berkeley around the same time as BSD. Note, not everyone is convinced this is a coincidence.

Just FYI, 32bit Intel processors from the Pentium Pro generation and forward (with the exception of most, if not all of the Pentium-M's) have 36 physical address pins or more?

Many, but not all, chipsets have a facility for breaking the physical address presentation of the system RAM into a configurably-sized contiguous block below the 4GB limit and then making the rest available above the 4GB limit. If you're curious, the register (in intel parlance) is often called TOLUD (Top of Low Useable DRAM).

Yes, furthermore, given modern OS designs on x86 architecture, a process cannot utilize more than 2gb (windows without /3gb boot option) or 3gb (linux, most BSDs, windows with /3gb and apps specially built to use the 3/1 instead of 2/2 split.)

However, that limitation does not preclude you from having a machine running eight processes using 2GB of physical memory each.

The processor feature is called PAE (Physical Address Extension). It works, basically, by adding an extra level of processor pagetable indirection.

Incidentally, I have a quad P3-700 (It's a Dell PowerEdge 6450) propping a door open that could support 8GB of RAM if you had enough registered, ECC PC-133 SDRAM to populate the sixteen dimm slots.

Anyways, here's a snippet from the beginning of a 32 bit machine running Linux which has 4GB of RAM:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000097c00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000097c00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000defafe00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000defb1e00 - 00000000defb1ea0 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000defb1ea0 - 00000000e0000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f4000000 - 00000000f8000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fed40000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed45000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000011c000000 (usable)

The title of that list should really be "Physical Address Space map." Either way, notice that the majority of the RAM is available up until 0xDEFAFE00 and the rest is available from 0x100000000 to 0x11c000000 - a range that's clearly above the 4GB limit.

Yes, it's running a bigmem kernel... But that's what bigmem kernels are for.

Oh, incidentally, even windows 2000 supported PAE. The bigger problem is the chipset. Not all of them support remapping a portion of RAM above 4GB.