{"id":43,"date":"2004-07-31T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T00:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2004-07-31T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2004-08-01T00:23:06","slug":"five-days-and-no-crashes-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/31\/five-days-and-no-crashes-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Five days and no crashes yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the extended outage, but it’s been a little scary around here, what with the crashing PowerBook.
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\nYou may have noticed the sudden appearance of a backlog of postings on my other weblog<\/a> on Thursday or Friday. Imagine my trepidation of putting my faith in the machine after that series of Pure Evil I documented a couple weeks ago. On the one hand, when I had the original RAM in the machine, there wasn’t enough to do much other than the barest minimum of tasks. On the other, since I was replacing the third party RAM with more third party RAM, I wasn’t really sure whether the problem was a matter of RAM failure, of system failure, or some sort of incompatibility between them.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, the replacement RAM arrived this past Monday. I was extra-special careful and brought the laptop down to the product development lab, located the appropriate tools, and used an ESD (electrostatic discharge) wrist strap and an ESD-protected bench surface. The RAM went in without incident, the laptop came back up, and it’s been running ever since. I should note particularly that each time the laptop started acting strangely it had just before been subject to rather extreme heat; I’m sure it was well within spec but running Virtual PC, Xcode builds, or BZFlag<\/a> tends to push the machine. I’ve done one or more of these at least once a day since I installed the new stuff. (Oh, joy<\/em>…)<\/p>\n

I have a short backlog of items to post from my hiatus. I’ll crank them out as soon as I can. Until then…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the extended outage, but it’s been a little scary around here, what with the crashing PowerBook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}