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Assuming they take the full 48 hours and aren't down for another single second this year, that's only a 99.45% uptime rating. (two 9s)
We were dealing with five 9s levels of service years ago. - A rating that means you get just under 5 minutes and 16 seconds of downtime per year. As the article states, "Enterprise services typically measure downtime in seconds or less".
Good luck with that Verizon!
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11-year-old Mars rover Opportunity suffering from memory loss for more than a month. "Dai-sy, dai-sy, give me your answer true."
Dang. Even pasting that line. Must be some dust in my eye again.
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Why do I smell memory leaks ?
Maybe they are using some software developed by M$? I hope not.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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It's a hardware problem. One of the banks of flash memory has just worn out and can no longer be read. The fix is just to remove that entire bank from service.
Unfortunately, even if you don't hit the maximum reprogramming limit and kill it that way, flash chips are only good for about a decade. Curiosity has just hit 4000 days of operation; top binned chips or not old age is probably going to catch up to more of them in the next few years, and losing the ability to store data overnight will be a major capability hit even if nothing else fails.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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At the 31C3 security conference, Microsoft's former chief privacy adviser Caspar Bowden presented The Cloud Conspiracy, warning "If you are not American, you cannot trust U.S. software services." "I trust no one, not even myself"
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Microsoft’s attempt to climb back into the mobile phone race may finally be drawing its final breaths. "It ain't over till the fat lady sings" (Or Nadella knifes it)
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Say it ain't so...!
I find my Windows Phone 8.1 (Lumia) to be much more usable than my Android tablet or my wife's iPhone 5.
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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I like the new Lumia phones: they are cheap and have power, but I am addicted to Nexus - now my third: Nexus 6. It is a hammer - a real big hammer
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Estimates are that approx 38 Million Windows 8 phones sold.
It is interesting that a company & product can be considered a failure when it has sold 38 million units.
It's a bit disturbing since it means that you can only get a product that the other 5 billion people like, which means, you are a minion and we will tell you what to like.
For the record, I do not own a windows 8 phone. I have a Nexus 7 tablet (android of course) and a Stupid-Phone and a laptop running Windows 8.1 and another laptop running Ubuntu.
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Microsoft has been trying to create generally accepted IT and software development certifications for at least two decades. In an attempt to distinguish between those who actually know the material and those who are just good at memorizing study guides they’ve tried a variety of tactics. A certification for knowing what you're doing? Where's the brain dump site for that?
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And I thought all the certification business was about money...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: If the candidate passes the review, he or she has two weeks to publish the application in the Microsoft Store and 90 days to pass the advanced Windows Store exam for C# or HTML5. (In other words, the technical review is a substitute for two of the three exams.)
They must really be desperate to close the app gap...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Python creator Guido van Rossum’s proposal for static type-checking annotations is inching closer to reality, and the feature has taken on a new name: type hinting.
Hint: There may be some value in this.
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Underestimating the powers of a developer, are we?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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e International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) announced today that it’s going to be adding a second to the clock on June 30, 2015. While leap seconds sound entirely harmless, it’s far more dangerous for the Internet than you might expect.
Y2.15K?
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No they're not. Just ignore it.
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They actually believe that our measure of time is accurate to the second?!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Clearly not. That's why they're adding a second.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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In this post, I’ll walk you through a few samples that I found helpful to wrap my head around Roslyn. Roslyn, Washington is small, but it won't fit in a nutshell
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I work in Rosslyn, Arlington, VA.
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The three fastest growing databases of 2014 were all open source, according to a new report from DB-Engines, a site that tracks popularity in the rapidly changing database marketplace. "Hurry harder!"
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Revealed at CES 2015, the $149 Intel Compute Stick is a Windows 8.1 computer in the slim body of an HDMI 1.4a dongle media streamer, like the Chromecast or Amazon Fire TV Stick. "Put it on the viewscreen"
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