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I purchased 8GB of RAM for my Linux box at work. I was giddy as I loaded up all that RAM. I fired up the computer expecting it to be blazing fast. It was a bit faster, but not what I expected. I looked at the specs and found that it was only recognizing 3GB. Why? I installed the 32bit version of Ubuntu instead of the 64bit version D'oh! Now I'm stuck with either 4GB of wasted RAM, or I need to wipe out the drive, re-install Ubuntu using the 64bit version and pray that all of my apps have 64bit versions. That sucks. I think that I'll try the 64bit version eventually, but I may just be content with 1 GB more than I had for awhile. I suspect that in the next year most programmers will be making the leap to all 64bit versions. it is getting difficult to purchase a 32bit computer anymore. What a waste though.
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Leopard doesn't have that problem.
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buy two more boxes! Just connect the pins, by a small wire, from the CPU to the new boards That way you can use the same CPU on more than one motherboard, and eliminate idle time.
Size them just right and use a wire-tie to hold the 754 wire bundle together.
Have someone take pics of the wires popping out & when the haul you to the asylum. Let us know if you meet B. Spears too.
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That makes no sense. I run many 32bit apps on my 64 bit G5, 64 bits being the width of the data path, which is not the same as the address lines to your memory. If you have a 3GB limit its more likely your BIOS / MB and not ubuntu.
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In related news, I popped into MicroCenter yesterday to get my free 2 GB SD card (they sent a flyer out with a coupon). I got it, but also ended up with a wireless router, a 5 port switch, and two 512 MB sticks of RAM. Put the RAM in my MDD 867 last night and now have 2 GB! Noticably better!
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32bit OSes are limited to 3GB. 64bit OSes (OS X, Vista/XP 64, Linux AMD-64) can support much more. My computer will support more than 3 GB, but the OS won't. I feel stupid. I should have thought of that...
I think that Windows managed a cludged hack to allow 4 GB, but it isn't really using 4 GB if I remember correctly.
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remember when 32 MB was enough?
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Ha, I had the same Timex Sinclair as my first ever computer! I managed to program machine-code on that system. Talk about having to code efficiently within the 2k limit! I never got the 16k add on...
The OLPC size & keyboard reminds me of the old Timex Sinclair.
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Geeze...Linux is becoming as bloated as...well, every other OS out there.
