The Old New Thing

August 14, 2006 - The Old New Thing

The cultural anthropology of getting on a bicycle

August 14, 2006 Aug 14, 2006 08/14/06
Raymond Chen
I can tell where you grew up by watching you get on a bicycle. Well, sort of. In my limited experience, I've observed two distinct ways of getting on a bicycle. The first is what I'll call the Chinese method, since it's the dominant technique in China, Taiwan, and Japan, as far as I can tell. To get on a bicycle using the Chinese method, ...

Why can't I see all of the 4GB of RAM in my machine?

August 14, 2006 Aug 14, 2006 08/14/06
Raymond Chen
Here's a question that came from a customer: I have set my boot options to /3GB /NOPAE. Even though the server has 4GB of physical memory, we see only 3.5GB of physical memory on the server after it boots up. However, when we change the boot options to /PAE, we can observe 4GB of memory. Furthermore, when I enable only /PAE, even though the ...