Back in January, I experienced the dreaded Deaded Lower Ram Slot Problem on my 1.5ghz PowerBook.

Well, it seems to have happened again. Not sure exactly when it happened, but it may well have been right around the time I upgraded to 1.4.8. But it also has been running hot for long stretches of a time, lately - maybe that's the cause. Ugh, who knows?. Back you go to Apple for a new logic board, little PowerBook.

This all got me wondering how I could make my machine make an assertion at startup about how much memory it has. That in turn got me googling, which in short order produced a handy answer courtesy of one Matt Comi. Thanks, Matt.

And yes, I do need to get a new machine. I have needed one for months, but just can't bring myself to do it knowing that the Core2 Duos are just around the corner. Any day now, right?