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- Glitch
- A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it...
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- FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual
- Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...
- Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual
- The Federal Aviation Authority is looking into a networking problem that threatens to delay flights across the U.S. The problem resides in its telecom network. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: FAA, Network, Federal Aviation Authority, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Survey: Cloud confusion among IT could slow enterprise adoption
- Security - Connectivity?Can the connectivity be guaranteed, if a glitchoccurs and thousands of customers are lefthanging saving $500 is hardly worth it.Plus, the security holes when dealing with data... Instead of worrying about....whether your are using the cloud or any other "buzz word" technology IT pros need only worry that...
- Tags: Marketing research, information technology, good-IT pro, Well HERE, IT Pro, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Canon releases EOS 7D firmware update
- After it was discovered that the Canon EOS 7D has a ghosting glitch, the company has released a firmware update to correct the problem. EOS 7D owners can download the 7D Firmware Update Version 1.1.0 at Canon's USA website. The update promises the following fix: Corrects...
- Tags: Firmware Update, Firmware, Canon Inc., Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- What should open source do in a car?
- Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...
- Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Canon 7D glitch produces ghosted images
- RE: Canon 7D glitch produces ghosted imagesJust in time for Halloween!RE: Canon 7D glitch produces ghosted imagesStinky problem, but v1 software usually has a few surprises. Janice, I hope you'll track this one for us.Thanks for the update!I'll be watching Canon's site to see what they plan to do...
- Tags: Canon 7D, Canon 7D glitch, Canon Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Canon 7D glitch produces ghosted images
- Canon has issued a service notice for the recently released EOS 7D Digital SLR, acknowledging a ghosting problem that occurs in images captured during continuous shooting. by Janice Chen
- Tags: Canon Inc., Canon 7D Glitch, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Google Voice mails exposed for all to see and hear
- If you believe the "explanation"then no problem, though honestly, I think we just witnessed another reason why "living in the cloud" is not for those with anything of importance that needs protecting.I doubt that Google intended for all of those private voice mails to be made public.RE: Google Voice mails...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Voice mail, voicemail
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Microsoft: Human error caused critical SMB2 vulnerability
- did not explain why the fix was not back-ported to Windows Vista and other That very bad. I was wondering this myself when news broke that Win 7 was not vulnerable.What were they thinking? Fixing a bug and "forgetting" that other versions may actually be vulnerable?Or had they actually recorded...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Hulu Desktop, Microsoft Corp., critical SMB2 vulnerability, SMB2, SMB2 vulnerability, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- VA now loves its VistA software
- In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Vista Software, Yes Vista, VA Hospital, MUMPS, hospital, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Almost a month later and my custom Zune Originals HD arrived
- As I wrote in my Zune HD review I ordered a platinum Zune HD from Amazon and received it promptly on launch day. I was so impressed with the Zune HD hardware that I ordered a custom Zune Originals model that day from the Zune Original website. Little did I...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Novel/Inadvertent way to promote a tech conference
- Gremlins can sometimes be good Yesterday, gremlins either stomped my blog page or they laid waste to a ZDNet advertiser see below. [caption id="attachment_650" align="alignnone" width="462" caption="An Ad I Actually Read"][/caption] I remember some old Marketing sage telling me in college...
- Tags: Advertisement, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Google: It's not me, it's you
- Wow, this thing is coolI'm a Google fan, but so far this looks much betterI know!I love it. It doesn't have all topics, but it had most of the stuff I searched for.weak, not for techiesJust put some not very popular words and the result yields nothing.Hmm interestingLast I spoke...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Kosmix, search engine
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion
- I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Why you should be glad about Gmail failures
- A future that will never happen."But the way I look at it, every Gmail outage is a small investment I?m willing to make towards a future when I?ll be able to take its reliability utterly for granted."Keep dreaming.They are machines created by humans, maintained by humans, running software created by...
- Tags: Manufacturing, E-mail providers, Perfection, outage, Google Inc., Google Gmail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Is it fair to criticize Google for the Gmail outage? [video]
- Yes it is fair to criticizeThis was a preventable mistake, and all preventable mistakes are worth criticizing.However I think the more important question is whether we are overreacting to what happened. And I think we are. A two hour outage actually less than that is not worth the amount of...
- Tags: Manufacturing, E-mail providers, cloud computing, Linux, video, Google Inc., outage, Google Gmail, Gmail outage, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- 2010 Kia Soul
- Photo gallery:2010 Kia SoulRisk-adverse by nature, car companies don't often make radical moves, and although the 2010 Kia Soul looks unique, it follows the Scion xB by five years in body style. In fact, the success of the xB spawned two imitators, the Soul and the Nissan Cube. These cars...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, iPod integration, Kia Motors Corp., Kia Soul, Apple iPod, car
- Product reviews 2009-08-04
- News to know: Amazon; Yahoo-Microsoft; Wireless carrier exclusivity; YouTube; Oracle; HP-IBRIX
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles Dana Blankenhorn: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Wireless, Brammo, GlassHouse Service, Microsoft Windows 7, FireWire, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Windows 7, netbook support in the works for Windows Home Server
- Windows 7, netbook support in the works for Windows Home ServerWin 7 Support?I've been running Win 7 for months and using it with my Windows Home Server without issue. It backs up files and I was able to use the WHS to restore a file that I accidentally overwrote...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), netbook, server, WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Win 7
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
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