I fail to understand why anybody would work an 80 hour week, really, what were you doing that for? Unless you actually do make a few million at the end of it when you sell your company, I really do not think it is worth it. Now, it's 10:35AM, I have posted a /. article, I now need at least another cup of tea and a biscuit before I start doing any work. Somebody called me at 9:30AM this morning, 9:30AM! I wasn't even here..

Yeah so what is the issue here? What exactly is Monty trying to rescue? Does MySQL contain any IP that Oracle owns that is not covered by the GPL code license?

So MySQL sold for a cool $1 billion in whatever it was, and now he wants to get it back for free? This is so funny it may just work.

Yeah, it does, and it is certainly not worthy or watching on my 50 inch telly. I would like a small box that will connect to a SMB share and stream video from files on there, that supports a load of formats (hey just use embedded VLC) and has HDMI output. I do not want USB sockets or built in youtube just something that works to stream from a shared drive.

How about using a memory controller, separate to the DRAM sticks that does not write to the memory sequentially, instead it will hold a seed that changes on each power cycle that will randomly spread the writes and reciprocal reads across the DRAM space. Then even if you get the DRAM, you will also need this memory controller in order to do anything useful.

All it needs to do is interface the address bus on the DRAM to the system bus, when the system looks at address A the controller actually pulls up address Y, etc.

Think of it as encrypting the address bus, instead of the data.

If the seed is sufficiently large, the spread will be sufficiently random to thwart attack.