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NASA Finds Cause of Voyager 2 Glitch
astroengine writes "Earlier this month, engineers suspended Voyager 2's science measurements because of an unexpected problem in its communications stream. A glitch in the flight data system, which formats information for radioing to Earth, was believed to be the problem. Now NASA has found the cause of the issue: it was a single memory bit that had erroneously flipped from a 0 to a 1. The cause of the error is yet to be understood, but NASA plans to reset Voyager's memory tomorrow, clearing the error."
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Why don't they just always try that first?
Let me guess: cosmic ray. Is it really that hard? What else causes a single bit-flip error in space?
Incredibly annoying alien hackers?
Finally, we found a use for ECC RAM!
Must suck waiting 26 hours to find out if the reboot worked...
What else would it be?
According to some German, aliens.
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PS is "Cosmci Ra" related to Mumm-Ra? Or She-Ra for that matter?
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"Blow in the DTR!" "No, no! Jiggle the CCS!" "Did you try uninstalling the MGA?"
V'Ger is unwilling to just transfer the data to its Creator...
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All that and no "Try SCE to aux"?
Actually it was a metric "0" that got switched to an imperial "1".
M-x butterfly. Cosmic rays, but on purpose.
A tiny cosmic spatula.
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One could argue it's about a million times easier
1048576 times easier, you mean. we don't want your SI kind here.
You telling me NASA doesnt even use parity memory? Seriously?
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Finally, joke about Windows all you want ... if you do a default installation of Windows and you don't install any additional drivers or software, it is extremely stable and will just sit there for ages happy to do nothing but tick away.
Let me just OT for a moment here: if you didn't install any drivers or software... it'd just sit there, period, and you wouldn't be too happy about this slightly warm expensive paperweight you just bought. What on earth is the point of a computer without additional software?
Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion.
we use a binary postfix that is identical to a SI prefix
Yeah, the problems only come when you try to use the keyboard or mouse.
I'm middle-endian, you insensitive clod.
Well, okay, as long as they don't get the "Press any key to continue" message...
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Classic, ever repeated confusion of what "power" is. Unless you mean volts times amps, power is what you can do with it.
Have you ever kissed a girl?
Have you ever kissed a girl?
This is the wrong place to ask for dating advice.
Analogue amplification gives even harmonics whereas digital amplification gives odd harmonics. And even harmonics are more pleasing to the ear. You can obviate the problem of odd harmonics by producing more harmonics to nudge the signal back to more pleasing shapes, but that means that an op-amp running at 192kHz can produce a pseudo-analogue amplified signal equating to an analogue amplifier with a ceiling of 30kHz.
It's one reason why early CDs were, frankly, crap: the sound engineers used the same techniques making the sound track for the CD that they did for the analogue LP. But the CD has different strengths and weaknesses and some processes that utilised the strength of LP and avoided the weakness of them were unsuited to the CD characteristics.
AFAIR, the re-release of the White Album was the first one where they went back to the original tapes and worked the signal to accord with the CD and digital amplification strengths.
Now they're ditching the high dynamic range of CD in the loudness war.
Way to go, guys.
All I hear is: "Blah blah blah tube blah blah loud blah blah" *ringing in my ears*
Though in your case, I think it's more than just one bit that's flipped. I've read some of your posts Mr. AC.