Our P2P Find For: August 28, 2004

Someone obviously took a screenshot of a window on their machine. The weird thing was it was stored as a PDF. I would have thought it would be a BMP, since that's what windows takes screenshots in. Also, 63MB of RAM is a very odd number, usually ram is in powers of 2 (2,4,16,32,64,etc).

Posted: August 31, 10:01 AM
Actually odd numbers for ram on older machines is normal. It is a setting in Bios usually seen on store bought stuff like HP, Gateway, etc.

Posted: August 31, 11:10 AM
or it could be from a Mac running Virtual PC (screenshots are PDF files)

Posted: August 31, 4:15 PM
It's probably neither. El-cheap-o systems often use some of the system memory for integrated video memory. In this case, 1 meg has been allocated for video. Some of these systems even used let you pick how much memory you want to dedicate to the card.

Posted: September 1, 1:53 AM
It's probably why the screenshot was taken; to prove to someone that they did in fact have 63 MB of RAM (where the other party insisted it had to be 64)

Posted: September 3, 8:11 PM
And .PDF'd to print?

Posted: September 7, 9:55 AM
Probably Windows in Virtual PC

Posted: September 7, 11:01 AM
Possibly video memory, BIOS shadowing, etc. Either that or a virus hiding in memory reporting a smaller amount and hoping the user does not notice it.

Posted: September 7, 4:22 PM
From my experience, RAM always shows up as roughly one megabyte LESS than what is physically installed.

Posted: October 26, 6:13 PM
Indeed, RAM manufacturers round up their product's capacity quite heavily. Still, this might be 1. documentation for something, or 2. an Adobe Print-to-PDF'ed document.