Re: [GTALUG] war story #2: buying RAM

2023-05-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:02:12AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > A couple of RAM manufacturers have product selectors that help you a lot. > Lennart pointed this out. But then you don't get the advantage of buying > a commodity. I think the problem is that while ram is mostly a

Re: [GTALUG] I keep getting unsubscribed from the list

2023-05-16 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2023-05-16 11:56, Znoteer via talk wrote: Apparently, according to the messages I receive, my provider keeps bouncing list mail back to the server. This is a reliable, paid for service (mailbox.org) as far as I know. I have no trouble with mail from any other source than gtalug. Have you

[GTALUG] correction, Re: I keep getting unsubscribed from the list

2023-05-16 Thread Znoteer via talk
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:56:29AM -0400, Znoteer wrote: > Apparently, according to the messages I receive, my provider keeps bouncing > list mail back to the server. > The subject line is wrong. I'm not getting unsubscribed. My "membership is being disabled", which translates to delivery of

[GTALUG] I keep getting unsubscribed from the list

2023-05-16 Thread Znoteer via talk
Apparently, according to the messages I receive, my provider keeps bouncing list mail back to the server. This is a reliable, paid for service (mailbox.org) as far as I know. I have no trouble with mail from any other source than gtalug. Is this related to the infrastructure administration

Re: [GTALUG] war story #2: buying RAM

2023-05-16 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
I wrote this thread to 1. inform others of the traps I encountered 2. to whine about how some traps are created to advantage vendors but end up just making complexity that hurts everyone. The RAM market is not simple. There are several dimensions one needs to get right: - technology (eg.

Re: [GTALUG] war story #2: buying RAM

2023-05-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 03:16:39PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote: > Yes, Hugh will run into problems then of getting that speed. The JEDEC > default profile is 2400mhz > from memory. Not sure how locked the Bios on his Thinkpad is. It seems that > lots of people are > reporting XMP enabling not