Nonetheless, I suspect that anyone with mission-critical type data stored on a system constructed back around 1968 has othe pressing concerns that might cause the money to be coughed-up for a migration (whether it was Oracle or anything else modern). Often times, you can't really get repairs done to systems that old in reasonable amounts of time. If the hardware dies on you, what then?
Just because the system was designed & implemented back then, doesn't mean the hardware is. IMS is a mainframe database. You can buy a brand new Z Series, and install IMS on it, so the data is 30 years old, but the hardware is 3 weeks old.
What changed their mind, is that some smelting operation ( again, IIRC ) destroyed itself automatically, when the computers that poured fuel ( coal? ) into the furnaces kept doing so, while the computers that poured ore into the system stopped doing so, because Feb 29th didn't, according to them, exist.
Actually the problem was that computers shut down, and that caused the melting pots furnaces to shut down. With these sort of things, an uncontrolled shutdown does damage, they should be shutdown gradually. This was in 1996, as would be implied by it being a leap year problem.
Early computers had front panels, which allowed the engineers to see exactly what was executing. An infinite loop would be easy to see as it would be repeating the same pattens over and over again. Then they'd reset it.
This problem actually predates Oracle by quite a bit. There lots of people who have data in a creaky old mainframe database, that they'd like to move onto a more modern database but they can't due to the costs of migration. A lot of data is in IMS, which is so old (1968) that it predates relational database. Imagine having to do all the work that SQL does for you by yourself.
Yeah, all big data centres used this. Nowadays, with halon restrictions, they're either going to more expensive alternatives like NFP 1230 or Halotron I, or alternatively switching to more conventional fire fighting methods like water fog/mist, or CO2.
I've actually been in a data centre when the halon system was triggered. Everyone got out before the actual release.
Oh I'm not arguing with your basic premis, I'm just saying that McDonald's aren't the example to choose if you want to demonstrate unbridled success.
They've got two basic problems. In their primary markets (USA, Canada, Australia/NZ and Western Europe) they've run out of places to expand to, they've got increasing competition from other fast food suppliers, and there are increasing concerns about the nutrition of their products - hence the new 'lighter' menu.
In their secondary markets, the rest of the world, they're trying to develop their business, but as these countries often really don't have the money to make a huge difference to the McD bottom line, so the increases in these markets can't keep up with the decline in their primary markets.
In order to do that, you'd have to have some sort of automated querying, which violates Google's term's and conditions. Google probably don't want to have the load on their servers increased. They're a nice company, don't make it difficult for them.
Only 16Mb of RAM. I remember the first namesever that I ever ran. It was the nameserver, mailserver, and newserver, and ran it all in 8Mb of RAM. A big hard drive too, 300Mb for the main OS, and 500Mb for newsspool. Those were the days.
Also, accessibility features almost always benefit everyone, not just those who need them. Your office is wheelchair accessible? Means you can just roll those new racks into position.
No-one said that every website can be made accessable. However, that doesn't excuse those which can from not being made accesable. There is nothing on a book a flight page which should prevent making it accessible.
But HTML works very well for the blind. What doesn't work is when you break HTML by having links from images without ALT, required javascript links, flash nagivation etc. For 90%+ of websites they're perfectly accessable for the blind.
Perl 6 is still being designed, and is expected to be at least 18 to 24 months away from the first version. It would then take a period of at least a year before it was production ready.
For many applications, you might find it easier to use Inline::C or SWIG. Neither gives you the total power that XS does, but they're much easier to get into.
One plane crash was due to the crew having loaded so many pounds of fuel when they should have loaded so many kilograms instead...!
This was the Gimli Glider, which didn't crash, but did run out of fuel and had to make a dead stick landing on the abandoned RCAFB Gimli. No-one was seriously hurt. The aircraft, registration C-GAUN, serial number 22520, is still in service after $1M worth of repairs. Here are some photos from earlier this year.
Actually the number of cameras is about the same per capita when you compare the US and the UK. What's different is that the US has lots of malls, and the UK has comparatibly few, with most stores on the high street.
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Just because the system was designed & implemented back then, doesn't mean the hardware is. IMS is a mainframe database. You can buy a brand new Z Series, and install IMS on it, so the data is 30 years old, but the hardware is 3 weeks old.
Actually the problem was that computers shut down, and that caused the melting pots furnaces to shut down. With these sort of things, an uncontrolled shutdown does damage, they should be shutdown gradually. This was in 1996, as would be implied by it being a leap year problem.
Early computers had front panels, which allowed the engineers to see exactly what was executing. An infinite loop would be easy to see as it would be repeating the same pattens over and over again. Then they'd reset it.
Back in the days when many of these database were set up, it wasn't possible to store binary data.
That's because it is just a concept. If it was real, like real property, then people wouldn't have a hard time.
He didn't refuse to have it installed. He simply removed it afterwards.
winipcfg even existed for win95, and could do the same.
This problem actually predates Oracle by quite a bit. There lots of people who have data in a creaky old mainframe database, that they'd like to move onto a more modern database but they can't due to the costs of migration. A lot of data is in IMS, which is so old (1968) that it predates relational database. Imagine having to do all the work that SQL does for you by yourself.
Not just on EBay. Anyone getting stuck with a DMCA notification has a terrible time getting it cancelled.
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I've actually been in a data centre when the halon system was triggered. Everyone got out before the actual release.
They've got two basic problems. In their primary markets (USA, Canada, Australia/NZ and Western Europe) they've run out of places to expand to, they've got increasing competition from other fast food suppliers, and there are increasing concerns about the nutrition of their products - hence the new 'lighter' menu.
In their secondary markets, the rest of the world, they're trying to develop their business, but as these countries often really don't have the money to make a huge difference to the McD bottom line, so the increases in these markets can't keep up with the decline in their primary markets.
In order to do that, you'd have to have some sort of automated querying, which violates Google's term's and conditions. Google probably don't want to have the load on their servers increased. They're a nice company, don't make it difficult for them.
Only 16Mb of RAM. I remember the first namesever that I ever ran. It was the nameserver, mailserver, and newserver, and ran it all in 8Mb of RAM. A big hard drive too, 300Mb for the main OS, and 500Mb for newsspool. Those were the days.
Actually McDonalds are doing badly at the moment. They just announced a decline in earnings for the 7th time in the last 8 quarters.
Not much difference between 'decommissioned' and 'abandoned'. There was no control tower, there were no emergency vehicles, and while 32R was still used for amateur aviation, the only light stations were for 32L. Bob Pearson (The PIC at the time) says "Never even saw 32R, focusing instead on airspeed, altitude, and his plane's relationship to the threshold of 32L"
Also, accessibility features almost always benefit everyone, not just those who need them. Your office is wheelchair accessible? Means you can just roll those new racks into position.
No-one said that every website can be made accessable. However, that doesn't excuse those which can from not being made accesable. There is nothing on a book a flight page which should prevent making it accessible.
But HTML works very well for the blind. What doesn't work is when you break HTML by having links from images without ALT, required javascript links, flash nagivation etc. For 90%+ of websites they're perfectly accessable for the blind.
Hopefully not. The ADA applies to both.Hopefully this will go to the supreme court where they'll make a single answer.
As you can see by the references to Mac 8, this list is about 5 years old, and things have changed since then.
Perl 6 is still being designed, and is expected to be at least 18 to 24 months away from the first version. It would then take a period of at least a year before it was production ready.
For many applications, you might find it easier to use Inline::C or SWIG. Neither gives you the total power that XS does, but they're much easier to get into.
This was the Gimli Glider, which didn't crash, but did run out of fuel and had to make a dead stick landing on the abandoned RCAFB Gimli. No-one was seriously hurt. The aircraft, registration C-GAUN, serial number 22520, is still in service after $1M worth of repairs. Here are some photos from earlier this year.
Actually the number of cameras is about the same per capita when you compare the US and the UK. What's different is that the US has lots of malls, and the UK has comparatibly few, with most stores on the high street.