Category: Computer
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Greenfield development
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut
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Technology
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.Max Frisch
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Good news
If ZFS is indeed the base file system, as slipped by Jonathan Schwartz today, for the next version of Mac OS X, then it’s just another nail in the coffin of the Microsoft empire.Is it just me, or does it feel like the Redmond empire is losing steam; just like all the other monopolies before…
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Software complexity
He claimed a circuit board containing the logic found in a typical application would cover the same area as that of a single family home. This contrasts dramatically with that of a personal computer, where all of the complex logic is contained on the circuit board the size of a single floor tile.StorageTek’s James Willette…
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Computer Problem
“Hello, technical support, how can I help you?”LADY: “Last night my computer started making a lot of hissing noise at me so I shut it down. This morning when I turned it on the computer started hissing and cracking, then started smoking and a bad smell, then nothing.”SUPPORT: “I will have a technician come over…
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What does cause Winchester drives to fail?
One of our key findings has been the lack of a consistent pattern of higher failure rates for higher temperature drives or for those drives at higher utilization levels. Such correlations have been repeatedly highlighted by previous studies, but we are unable to confirm them by observing our population. Although our data do not allow…