[plug] Machine Check Exception

[Bernard Blackham]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:26:57AM +0800, bob wrote:
> > Looks like bad RAM or a cosmic ray to me.
> 
> Yes, though that might be the case. Oh well another reboot to run memtest 
> and see how that goes... otherwise, cosmics as you say.

Or perhaps you were being hacked along the lines of
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/papers/memerr.pdf ;)

> To tell the truth the box in question is probably just sulking. I'm in the 
> midst of configing up a replacement and it may have decided to go on 
> strike. :)

Christmas Day and your only present for it is the threat of being
demoted?  No wonder! :P

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>