D-Link switch and ecc-memory.
Thomas Lovie
tlovie at cr434095-a.glph1.on.wave.home.com
Tue Jan 16 11:33:13 PST 2001
Regarding spurious bit-flips in memory, Greg Lindahl writes:
> Josip neglected to mention that he is at sea level. If you are at a higher
> altitude, you will see more errors.
>
Really, why would this be the case? Surely the boiling temperature of water
would have nothing to do with it. Would the relative amount of atmosphere
that high energy electro-magnetic radiation has to go through be the
dominating effect here? Is it radiation that causes these errors anyways?
Tom Lovie.
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