Firmwares release notes, from January 13th, 2012:
"Correct a condition where an incorrect response to a SMART counter will cause the m4 drive to become unresponsive after 5184 hours of Power-on time. The drive will recover after a power cycle, however, this failure will repeat once per hour after reaching this point. The condition will allow the end user to successfully update firmware, and poses no risk to user or system data stored on the drive."
have you updated to the latest firmware? There was an elapsed-time counter that was declared as a smallint and it was overflowing. On reboot the drive would work again for one hour before failing on the hour counter update.
Technically there is no such thing as an "F3 tornado." The Fujita scale ( now updated as the Enhanced Fujita Scale) is a damage scale that estimates wind speed based on an examination of the damage done.
You had a storm that caused F3 damage or F5 damage. The same storm can cause a spectrum of damage from F0 - Fx as you move from the periphery to the center.
I was behind a woman at the gas station who was buying PowerBall tickets @ $2 apiece. She was clutching two $20 bills in her hand.
Woman: Give me 8 QuickPick tickets..
Cashier: That'll be $16
Woman: OH! give me three more.
Cashier: That'll be $22
Woman: Hmm give me three more..
Cashier: $28
Woman: Try 3 more.
Cashier: (exasperated) How much do you want to spend???
Woman: $40
Cashier: so you want 20 tickets....
Woman: If I have enough money yes, give me 20..
Verizon never does the right thing.
While they are refunding the money for the accidental data usage, they are also imposing a mandatory $9.99 minimum data plan on every wireless customer with a browser capability on their cell phone to prevent this from being a problem in the future.
So they give back $90 million and collect $9.99 per line going forward.
You mean the way the anti-war activists kept us from waging war in Viet Nam and Iraq ? From the DOE website:
There are several reasons why there are no firm plans to build new nuclear power reactors. First among these in the short term is that many if not most regions of the Nation presently have surplus baseload generating capacity. There are exceptions to this conclusion. California imports much of its base load electricity needs but also effectively discourages new production from the typical base load power sources, coal and nuclear. This short term base load surplus must be worked off before any new nuclear construction can be seriously considered.
A longer-term reason why no nuclear power has been built is that the capital costs of building a new nuclear power plant have historically been high. There are also considerable financial costs and risks related to the long construction periods in the industry. The last completed nuclear reactor, Watts Bar-1, took 24 years to complete. There has been a history of regulatory uncertainty. The extreme case is the Shoreham plant on Long Island that was essentially completed before it was decided that it would not be allowed to operate. Policy issues such as spent fuel disposal methods, liability insurance questions, and overall safety concerns on the part of the public have also adversely affected nuclear construction.
Water supplies in the US and around the world are being contaminated to unsafe levels by industrial waste, agricultural runoff and mining effluent on a daily basis.
Nobody cares until Intel can't use it to make chips? Slashdot is a strange place....
Make a film about the life of a scientist - oh wait, that won't work:
Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America',
A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
Yes PreUpgrade, that's what I had read about - in a post saying that live upgrading via yum was insanity even though possible. Thanks for setting me straight . My memory works in strange ways : )
There was talk of a yum-based upgrade path that cleanly updated the necessary libraries first and then the executables. Was that implemented with this tag?
A private files sharing app that I set up for my folks in NY that have Windows boxes. My parents love it for photo and video sharing with the in-laws.
http://www.enjoymymedia.com/
My guess is that the Business Week author is too young to remember how a 1994 post by Terje Mathisen to comp.sys.intel on USENET ultimately resulted in the recall of millions of Intel Pentium chips for the fdiv bug.
Compounding this problem is applications that cannot run under the Limited User/Super User paradigm. I recently struggled for a couple of hours to install an APS Style Guide addon to MS Word that would only run properly under a Privileged User account. Any attempts to install as SU and run as RU were thwarted by the program trying to create temp files in directories it did not have write permission in. There was no way to configure the temp file locations. It would not allow a local install as a RU either. This software was required to submit papers to APA journals so I had to create a SU account for my wife to run this one program.
I am sick of wrestling with software on the family XP boxes which does not support the user v. administrator permission scheme. It's now 2006 and running Windows XP Professional with a limited "user" account is still a hit or miss proposition. Sooner or later I need to make the account an administrator to get certain software to run properly.
The Sony navigation system in my '98 Expedition is one of the first consumer models that were available.
It has an annoying quirk that occasionally crops up in rural locations. Basically, it lets you enter a destination by address and calculates a route. But if there is a part of the route that is not in the road database, it doesn't announce that fact until you reach that portion of the trip. Suddenly the display greys out and you get a message saying you are now on your own.
Pays to have a paper map as a backup. : )
I always wondered why the programmers didn't think that the "missing data" warning should be displayed when the route was initially calculated?
With 8k of memory!! Ahh the joy of coding FORTRAN on punch cards - first home computer was Atari 800 XL w/ a 13" color TV as a monitor - first Atari BASIC program plotted Sierpinski Triangles.
Slashdot Mirror
Both Kalitta Air and Atlas Air are still flying 747s.
My windowless office in a computing facility is like a Faraday cage. No signal.
Firmwares release notes, from January 13th, 2012: "Correct a condition where an incorrect response to a SMART counter will cause the m4 drive to become unresponsive after 5184 hours of Power-on time. The drive will recover after a power cycle, however, this failure will repeat once per hour after reaching this point. The condition will allow the end user to successfully update firmware, and poses no risk to user or system data stored on the drive."
have you updated to the latest firmware? There was an elapsed-time counter that was declared as a smallint and it was overflowing. On reboot the drive would work again for one hour before failing on the hour counter update.
Technically there is no such thing as an "F3 tornado." The Fujita scale ( now updated as the Enhanced Fujita Scale) is a damage scale that estimates wind speed based on an examination of the damage done. You had a storm that caused F3 damage or F5 damage. The same storm can cause a spectrum of damage from F0 - Fx as you move from the periphery to the center.
Woman: Give me 8 QuickPick tickets ..
Cashier: That'll be $16 ....
Woman: OH! give me three more.
Cashier: That'll be $22
Woman: Hmm give me three more..
Cashier: $28
Woman: Try 3 more. Cashier: (exasperated) How much do you want to spend???
Woman: $40
Cashier: so you want 20 tickets
Woman: If I have enough money yes, give me 20..
10/04/2000 44.31
10/04/2010 33.03
Their price gouging isn't doing much for their stock price.
Verizon never does the right thing. While they are refunding the money for the accidental data usage, they are also imposing a mandatory $9.99 minimum data plan on every wireless customer with a browser capability on their cell phone to prevent this from being a problem in the future. So they give back $90 million and collect $9.99 per line going forward.
You mean the way the anti-war activists kept us from waging war in Viet Nam and Iraq ?
From the DOE website:
There are several reasons why there are no firm plans to build new nuclear power reactors. First among these in the short term is that many if not most regions of the Nation presently have surplus baseload generating capacity. There are exceptions to this conclusion. California imports much of its base load electricity needs but also effectively discourages new production from the typical base load power sources, coal and nuclear. This short term base load surplus must be worked off before any new nuclear construction can be seriously considered.
A longer-term reason why no nuclear power has been built is that the capital costs of building a new nuclear power plant have historically been high. There are also considerable financial costs and risks related to the long construction periods in the industry. The last completed nuclear reactor, Watts Bar-1, took 24 years to complete. There has been a history of regulatory uncertainty. The extreme case is the Shoreham plant on Long Island that was essentially completed before it was decided that it would not be allowed to operate. Policy issues such as spent fuel disposal methods, liability insurance questions, and overall safety concerns on the part of the public have also adversely affected nuclear construction.
Water supplies in the US and around the world are being contaminated to unsafe levels by industrial waste, agricultural runoff and mining effluent on a daily basis. Nobody cares until Intel can't use it to make chips? Slashdot is a strange place....
unamed man umount'ed ?
Next thing you know, they'll be selling desks without inkwells!
Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America',
A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6173399/Charles-Darwin-film-too-controversial-for-religious-America.html
Yes PreUpgrade, that's what I had read about - in a post saying that live upgrading via yum was insanity even though possible. Thanks for setting me straight . My memory works in strange ways : )
There was talk of a yum-based upgrade path that cleanly updated the necessary libraries first and then the executables. Was that implemented with this tag?
From my experience the "cold" bulbs spark up right away, while the "warm" color bulbs need about a minute to reach the maximum output level
Textbooks prices are brutal.
"Bivalve Molluscs: Biology, Ecology and Culture"
ISBN: 978-0-85238-234-9
Hardcover
443 pages
January 2003
Print Edition: US $199.00
eBook Edition: US $179.99
My sister bought a Dell laptop this week and had to pay a $100US premium to have XP installed instead of Vista.
A private files sharing app that I set up for my folks in NY that have Windows boxes. My parents love it for photo and video sharing with the in-laws. http://www.enjoymymedia.com/
My guess is that the Business Week author is too young to remember how a 1994 post by Terje Mathisen to comp.sys.intel on USENET ultimately resulted in the recall of millions of Intel Pentium chips for the fdiv bug.
Compounding this problem is applications that cannot run under the Limited User/Super User paradigm. I recently struggled for a couple of hours to install an APS Style Guide addon to MS Word that would only run properly under a Privileged User account. Any attempts to install as SU and run as RU were thwarted by the program trying to create temp files in directories it did not have write permission in. There was no way to configure the temp file locations. It would not allow a local install as a RU either. This software was required to submit papers to APA journals so I had to create a SU account for my wife to run this one program.
I am sick of wrestling with software on the family XP boxes which does not support the user v. administrator permission scheme. It's now 2006 and running Windows XP Professional with a limited "user" account is still a hit or miss proposition. Sooner or later I need to make the account an administrator to get certain software to run properly.
It has an annoying quirk that occasionally crops up in rural locations. Basically, it lets you enter a destination by address and calculates a route. But if there is a part of the route that is not in the road database, it doesn't announce that fact until you reach that portion of the trip. Suddenly the display greys out and you get a message saying you are now on your own.
Pays to have a paper map as a backup. : )
I always wondered why the programmers didn't think that the "missing data" warning should be displayed when the route was initially calculated?
With 8k of memory!! Ahh the joy of coding FORTRAN on punch cards - first home computer was Atari 800 XL w/ a 13" color TV as a monitor - first Atari BASIC program plotted Sierpinski Triangles.
I prefer the D200 ... makes the D70 look like a cap pistol.