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LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 16, 2012
Book review: Open Advice
Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE
LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 9, 2012
XBMC 11 "Eden"
So, one chance in three per annum of suffering a memory error on a given machine, roughly.
With ECC memory which Google use as standard, 19 out of 20 of these errors will be transparently corrected.
With non-ECC memory, as in commodity PCs, stiff biscuit every time.
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