That's rediculous. I was able to apply a 10% tmobile discount to my bill (negotiated by my company). All I had to do was change my billing date to fall in line with a certain business billing date. I did not have to sign a new contract.

You have to be born in the USA in order to be eligible to be president. ROFLPUSA / ROFLMAYOR

I like my sugar with coffee and cream!

Should I flush() before or after i dump() ?

Yes, exactly... Apple really does have a vendetta against Adobe. HTML5 is coming

It used to be the same with CompUSA. Warranties, bullying. But is it worth fleecing customers for a spiff in the face? I don't think so. I became like a used-car salesman doing the bait and switch: "We don't have that computer in stock, but how about this one? It comes with 3 years of internet service too! (you only have to sign your life away to AOL/Prodigy)!

"Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings."

Except their friggen software. Slightly off topic here, but we use Tektronix Logic Analyzers (for viewing hundreds of digital signals at at time) and their software is so buggy its not funny. Imagine trying to create a state machine for your trigger and you're unable to create and "if else" clause because the GUI won't let you (greyed out). How about declining to save a system file deletes the previously opened system file!? REDONKULOUS.

I ride my bike everywhere and I'm not even in a city with good public transport. The grocery store is about a mile from my house. Work is about 1 mile from my house. The bar is a little further, so I drink a little less. Groceries I do once every two weeks, supplemented by food I buy at the cafe at work. I am able to fit all my groceries in my backpack (when it doesn't have my laptop in it)

This is how vendors keep their market segmentation. ECC supported only on servers. Consumers don't need it, so prevent them from using ECC so server customers can't buy cheap setups with ECC!

Laptops with SO-DIMM memory currently do not have the option for ECC. There is no real demand for it yet with DDR3. Since we're getting into smaller form factor blade servers, I'd expect to see it starting with DDR4.

ECC RAM essentially means that there's an extra DRAM component that stores the ECC data, but yes, the memory controller has to support it.

Its not the motherboard that will prevent you from using ECC memory, it's most likely the fusing of your CPU. If you don't have a Server CPU, ECC will not be enabled. Keep in mind, currently there is no solution for SO-DIMM ECC memory, so you must be talking about desktop ECC (UDIMM) memories.

Working in a lab environment I test DDR3 memory on a daily basis and we run into a lot of failures from JEDEC violation to blatant byte/word/dword corruption and even single bit failures. Single bit failures are by the far the worst to debug. Kudos to this guy for tracking it down. I am going to add these debug procedures to my arsenal!

When I encounter a failure, logging all information is of course the first thing I do, but reproducibility is key! With reproducibility, like the article says, you're able to throw as many experiments at it as you can think up. We will run memtest86+ among other tools to gather data on whether the failure reproduces with other tests. In the case we believe it is a DRAM part failure, we will utilize Logic analyzers and Oscilloscopes to determine and prove that the failure is on a specific component.

Sometimes failures we encounter are DIMM vendor issues, sometimes our own, induced by bad in house memory test software/hardware