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IT failures roundup: software bugs everywhere

IT failures roundup: software bugs everywhereProblem is what you define as software.Today we seem to define a computer program as anything from assembly language to HTML, and most programming is actually script languages executed by an Interpreter. The computer industry seems to support this move away from real computer...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, information technology, software, programmer

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

Cadillacs recalled over software bug

Cadillacs recalled over software bugOnStar Patch Tuesdays...Coming soon, to a GM vehicle near you.Windows 2009 in you new vehicle anyone?I'd hate to have to wait while my ABS computer rebooted as I am heading off the edge of a cliff!RE: Cadillacs recalled over software bugHow you can protect yourself from...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Autos, Cadillacs, software bug, software

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

Cadillacs recalled over software bug

General Motors issued a recall for almost 13,000 Cadillac CTS vehicles, due to a software bug in the airbag sensor. Transportation-related software problems happen all the time. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration NHTSA lists details: GM is...

Tags: Software, General Motors Corp., Software Bug, Software Problem, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Software bug prevents Big Brown quick pick racing payoff

Software bug prevents Big Brown quick pick racing payoffIs anyone else sick and tired...of the same, tired argument being pulled out every time a software bug screws consumers? It's like "all software has bugs" has become the stock excuse and people are just supposed to say "Oh, well in...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Big Brown, software, Software bug

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Software bug prevents Big Brown quick pick racing payoff

A horse racing bettor discovered a software bug preventing race payoffs under certain conditions. Following inquiries from California's Horse Racing Board, Scientific Games, which manufactured the race management software / hardware system, reported a bug that "dropped the last horse in the field from quick pick...

Tags: Software, Bug, Software Bug, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Moody's software bug screws investors

Moody's, a major credit rating agency, incorrectly awarded its top rating to $4 billion of risky debt due to a software bug in the company's mathematical models. The incorrect ratings misled investors into believing they could earn "very high returns with little risk," according to the...

Tags: Software, Moody's Corp., Investor, Software Bug, Financial Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-27

40 IT failures caused by software bugs

40 IT failures caused by software bugsDangerous logical bugs in widely used productsA while back the Life Insurance company debited my account twice in the same month luckily I had enough money on the account cover it.A large US supermarket chain debited a large number of customers debit and credit...

Tags: Programming languages, Databases, information technology, SQL, software

Discussion threads 2007-10-01

Security expert: Vendors to blame, not coders

Security expert: Vendors to blame, not codersActually BOTH the vendor and the programmers are to blame !!!Both the vendors and the programmers bear responsibility for the CRAP O/S's and software that exists. And yes many a dumbazz consumer is to blame for buying this CRAP. But the majority of security...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, software, Windoze O/Ss, software bug, programmer, coder, QA, security

Discussion threads 2005-10-20

Additional Resources

10 ways to evaluate your IT management software

Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-05

Zero-day flaw found in web encryption

Bad oneBecause the bug is actually in the spec and because of an incomplete spec there is no obvious solution which will not risk breaking a lot of software.On the positive side, the vuln can only be exploited by someone on the network path (it is a man-in-the-middle attack), which...

Tags: NETWORKING, SECURITY, Web, zero-day bug

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Bugzilla 3.4.3 (Mac)

Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org (250,000 entries), Gnome, Red Hat and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields, attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and web, xml, email and console interfaces....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Console, Bugzilla, E-mail, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Apple Mac OS X, Online Communications, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-11-05

ProteinID Finder Lite 1.7.0 (Mac)

ProteinID Finder is a proteomics analyzation software capable of extracting information from the online universal protein resource database UniProt. ProteinID Finder imports your mass spectrometer analyzed protein lists uniprot accession numbers into experiments and organizes your proteomics experiments into workspaces. You can share workspaces with your collaborators so everyone is...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Experiment, Tool, Proteome Solutions, ProteinID Finder, Productivity, Microsoft Windows 7, Storage, Apple Mac OS X, Databases, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Apple Mac OS, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Cribbage Plus! 1.1.3 (Mac)

Maybe you enjoy the classic game of cribbage, but you've often wondered what would happen if you, for instance, received 2 points for 14s instead of 15s. Or if you could peg to a number besides 31. In my new cribbage game, titled Cribbage Plus!, you an customize your game...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Gustaf Lindquist Software, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-03

VirtualBox update fixes Windows 7 bugs

Sun has updated its VirtualBox virtualization software, fixing bugs related to Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. Sun has updated its VirtualBox virtualization software, fixing bugs related to Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. Virtual Box 3.0.10, released on Thursday, includes a change in the way the software...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Sun, VirtualBox, virtualization, bugs, Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-02

CopyToDVD 4.3.1.3 (Windows)

CopyToDVD is the ultimate CD and DVD backup software. With CopytoDVD, you can backup DVD movies and videos, music, games, photos, and data files in one click. Archive all your essential data with this all-in-one disc-burning suite that combines performance, speed and simplicity. CopyToDVD provides you with a variety of...

Tags: CD, Backup, Microsoft Windows, Vso-Software, CopyToDVD 4.3.1.3, CopyToDVD, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-10-31

Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade ever

Worst OS ever! You should read what Dana Blankhorn had to say about your beloved linux! I'll give you a hint, its not good. I can't believe they would release a distro with known harddrive bugs. I'm going to laugh at you when you lose all your data due...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Ubuntu, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Software that automatically fixes itself, without shutting down

Invariant DetectionThis is supposing that the software is simple enough to determine invariants and not block valid code paths that are infrequently used. It sounds a lot like applying design by contract after the fact.Software That Fixes Itself?The headline implies an application that fixes itself. The article describes and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, invariant, software, Clearview, erroneous execution

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

What the DoD now says about open source

I could just see a commander in the field ....having to wait for procurement to get a simple map through bids while his troops are getting shot up even though it is publicly available (oh wait, isn't that how the Chinese embassy got accidentally bombed?)Always use the best tool for...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, U.S. Department of Defense, open source, OpenBSD, attack

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

ZFS on Snow Leopard? Forget about it!

Isn't it funny how the Apple crowd ........ attacked Microsoft when WinFS was pulled from Vista but appear to be totally absent on this story? I can't wait to see how they alibi Apple for this move.They'll defend it based upon licensingbut all that will prove is Apple was...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WinFS

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26