It was a while ago, so I can't remember exactly where I got it. At a guess, it was probably The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk) or The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net).
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:52:46 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm interested Sridhar, > > where did you hear about XP throttling bandwidth down to save some for > talking to M$ servers?? > > thats something that people should know about. > > > rgds > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan > Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2002 1:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] really really out of topic > > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:08:15 +0800, Sean Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > ok, so what's the deal with saying that the video card has 32mb of ram > > when it needs to use the system RAM??? > > Simple: you probably don't have a real video card. In fact, you probably > have > some kind of embedded graphics chip on your motherboard (or integrated into > your > CPU chipset). These things are cheap-'n'-nasty, and are often included in > low-cost (i.e. cheap) PCs. They don't have any memory of their own; instead > they > leech off your system RAM. That way, the system vendor can say "our machine > has > 64MB of RAM", when the fact is that you lose much of that to the video > chipset. > > The same thing is happening to hard drives nowadays. Many machines > preinstalled > with WinXP have several gigabytes set aside for system recovery and backups > (the > 'rollback' feature). Many don't even come with a Windows CD, instead relying > on > this hidden partition. If you accidentally wipe that data, you're screwed. > The > vendor can still say "our drives are 30GB" when you can only use 20GB of > that. > > I hear that Windows XP does a similar thing with network bandwidth, > reserving > 10-20% for itself so it can communicate with MS servers behind your back. I > don't know what it uses that bandwidth for, but it's enough to put me off MS > products for good (not that I liked them before). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
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