(Henry Spencer) wrote in message ...

Probably SEU, Single Event Upset, where a bit gets flipped by a particle
hit on a chip. If it's an important bit, a mess can result. :-)

The good news is that an SEU is a transient error, not a permanent failure,
assuming you have some way of resetting and restarting.

WHAT! You mean that some bits have more importance than others? What
an horror! I demand justice and equal rights for all bits alike,
wheter they are kernel scheduling adresses or a single element of a
JPEG!

Bits of the pictures, let's unite! We shall show the Kernel that
without us there is NO pretty pictures! Our brothers and sisters have
endured way too much in the past. Do I have to remind you of Galileo?
Most of our brothers-of-RAM died gruesomely at the hands of Jupiter's
Death Ring.

00F1:0A9F
Leader of the Interplanetary
Union of Memory Devices.