[SGVLUG] wikipedia datacenter, firefox3 uses less mem, + a deal on ram

[matti]

LOL, .. yes, there's FUD all over the place..
certainly quite a few in Adverts.

why buy Faster RAM than your computer can handle?
( no real reason.. in this case, the price after rebate
was really good - and I would have bought it if I
hadn't already maxed out my ddr2 system ;)

honestly, win-modems/win-printers/win-network cards
just suck! stay away from them if you can...

even using a core2 system with 4GB of ram, I 
encounter system/network delays which JUST piss me off.
(websites are just getting loaded with crud,
yeah I wanted to use a different word... lol )

dang! why is it that the back button on browsers
doesn't just show me what was there?! instead it reloads
the stinking page because the website publisher told
us to reload it! Why is it that some browser when you
want to save a picture has to reload it?? Thank goodness
for the firefox extensions ;)

Anyways, IF your system can support it, you probably
want to MAX out on the DDR2 RAM when you see a deal,
I bought faster RAM than my system can handle, but
after the rebate it was a deal and less than I would
have purcahsed it at a store. (wish I could get the
same prices for DDR ram.)

Remember, some MBs have issues with >2BG/>3GB>3.5GB
of RAM. (many laptops peak at 2GB)

OH, and if you want to address MORE than 4GB of ram..
checkout:
Physical Address Extension (PAE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

"The operating system uses page tables to map this 4 GB 
address space onto the 64 GB of total memory, and the 
map is usually different for each process. In this way 
the extra memory is useful even though no single regular 
application can access it all simultaneously."

Crud! Can't use more than 4GB per application!
Gee, I was hoping to malloc 60GB....

cheers
matti