Re: AS/400 UPS
Sounds like their SFT-III add-on for Netware.
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I've been to vendor demos where they say that their system is fully fault tolerant and it can survive bits being switched off.
The look of horror on their faces as I reach for some random cables to unplug is always quite amusing.
Note to vendors: If you claim your system is fault tolerant, I *will* test your claims - and not in a nice controlled shutdown manner either.
the bearings ceased when it spun down and cooled
I had a similar problem one time with a server: The main data disc won't spin up after a controlled power off. The head of IT was getting stressed by the downtime, knowing a full restore onto a new HDD (once it arrived) would take a long time.
The head of IT started to panic when I got a hammer out!
A light touch to the side of the HDD was enough to release the bearings and the disc spun up OK. More backups were rapidly taken whilst we waited for an engineer to arrive with a new HDD.
When looking at a take-over, you shouldn't just be looking at what the accountants say. You'll be looking closing at how it fits into your product mix. You'll be looking at their back office systems. Maybe looking at their organisation's culture. I'm sure lawyers will have something to say too.
Your job as the CEO is to take the advise from all of these people in your company, plus listen advice from your non-exec board members to make the final call. And if the call is wrong, to learn from the mistake and fall on your sword.
Here's just one example: The Birmingham Six. They got between £840,000 and £1.2 million each.
If I underrstand this correctly...
The seed electron weakly attaches itself to an oxygen molecule. This makes this molecule negatively charged as it now has an excess electron. As the electron is only weakly attached, the laser can easily liberate this electron.
So perhaps the author could have said "[...] laser can liberate those seed electrons"
See the developer statistics for the 5.0 kernel over at lwn.net.
Intel top the charts as the biggest contributor to the 5.0 kernel. Depending on how you chop the statistics, Facebook, Red Hat, IBM & Google (Among others) appear in the top ten too.
One of the best reasons to upgrade to the latest version of Windows (server or desktop) is that it now comes with OpenSSH built-in
This passed me by. According to this MS article, it's in Windows 10 & Server 2019 as of autumn 2018.
It would be nice if they back ported it to Server 2016.
The thing I loved about the old 8-bit micros was that you could understand & program everything. The manuals gave you so much detail too. I'd love to tinker with something like that nowadays.
I still dream of building my own small machine - just for the pleasure, not because I think I can do it better than anyone else. But modern things like USB, HDMI, ethernet, etc. make that practically impossible.
I believe the issue with continuing with the ISS is its running costs. It's getting on a bit and needs quite a bit of maintenance. I seem to recall that NASA, et al, have been touting around for commercial companies to take it on, but no-one wants to.
If you want an orbiting garage, then you'd probably be better off starting with something new.
The other issue is: Where is the fuel coming from? If it's coming from Earth, what are you saving by sending the fuel & vehicle up separately?
This happens all the time in the public sector. It's because whenever you buy (or sell) anything, you have to go through processes to show that you're obtaining the best price/not taking a back hander.
The problem is that the processes can be such a pain in the rear that it's simpler to just waste money than get better value for money.
I've twice recently had the unfortunate pleasure of trying to deal with NCP parking machines. These machines do have card readers (both chip & contactless)
On both occasions, it took me over 10 minutes to pay for my parking because the machines are so badly designed.
It never ceases to amaze me how companies can produce such bad IT that's intended for the general public to use.
Several commentards are coming up with ways on how to make password managers better (or something better than a password manager) Let's not forget the basic piece of advice: Using a password manager (With their design flaws) and having unique, strong passwords for every website is still a heck of a lot better than using the same poorly chosen passwords a
To truly evaluate the effectiveness of the facial recognition tech you need several pieces of information:
- How many people were innocent and flagged as not wanted.
- How many people where innocent yet flagged as wanted.
- How many people were wanted and flagged as wanted.
- How many people were wanted but not flagged as wanted
I grant that the final figure is really hard to get, but if it's a trial you should be able to measure all of these to a reasonable degree of accuracy so you can make a meaningful evaluation. If you take it even further, you could look at the amount of police time running the trial and compare it to other methods of finding people of interest. Is having a plod or two or three sitting around all day and make just one arrest a really good use of police resources?
But around here, we know what the public sector is like for undertaking honest & meaningful statistical analysis.
Someone over at Ars pointed out one of the big flaws in the Itanic design: Intel assumed that the compiler would be able to better parralllelize instructions that the CPU could at runtime. The problem with that, is that the compiler will never be able to tell what tier of memory (cache, main, swap) a memory access might be.
shared, single version of the truth of intra-company trades
Because blockchains are immune to people fiddling the system, aren't they...