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Friday madness: $23 quadrillion software glitch

Friday madness: $23 quadrillion software glitchFriday madness: $23 quadrillion software glitchIts an obvious glitch, but like you said always check your bills and statements, especially from Bank of America. I have a credit card through them and they charged me a $25 late fee when I had made the...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, Pre-paid, payment, software glitch, software, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Friday madness: $23 quadrillion software glitch

A guy spends $1.94 on his prepaid VISA card and receives a bill for $23,148,855,308,184,500. VISA also charged him a $15 overdraft fee. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Software, Visa Inc., Software Glitch, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Software glitch downs XM service for some

Software glitch downs XM service for someSoftware glitch downs XM service for someThey must be running linux.

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Software glitch, XM Satellite Radio Inc., software

Discussion threads 2007-05-22

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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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transition

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transitionHas the ATSC glitch affected you?If you?re a Media Center user, has this issue affected you? Leave a comment as a reply here. (If you have another coment to make, please start a new thread) I?ll be following up with Microsoft to see if I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, digital television, digital TV transition, TV, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Yes, the cloud is still OK, even after Google's "glitch"

The big news Thursday, of course, was Google's outage for many of its services. Listening in on Twitter, one would have thought that we were all going to die painful fiery deaths or that several folks at Google should sacrifice themselves to similarly painful and fiery deaths. By...

Tags: Google Inc., Student, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Will Windows Vista live to die another day?

After spending most of the morning on the phone to a number of UK universities (due to the time difference, many US universities were still sleeping), the general consensus is that Windows 7, when released, will not be the first upgrade they roll out to their networks. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, University, Microsoft Windows Vista, University Of Kent, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-12

News to know: Real Q1, Wolfram Alpha, Vonage, Psystar netbook, Google cloud

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: Real misses for Q1, swings to loss; mentions "Facet" Garett Rogers: Wolfram Alpha has Google's attention ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Vonage Holdings Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Home Entertainment, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2009-05-08

With Windows 7, 'Genuine' is out; 'Activation' is in

With Windows 7, 'Genuine' is out; 'Activation' is inLess Onerous?? How About Less Frequent???I am sick of the weekly "Genuine Windows Critical System Update".Once my copy of Windows has been validated, leave me alone. Go away, stop harassing me!Product activation is the work of Satan. And the "Genuine Horse Hockey"...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., piracy, Microsoft Windows 7, Genuine Horse Hockey, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

While Apple enjoys having billions in the bank, some iPhone developers are having a hard time getting paid

While Apple enjoys having billions in the bank, some iPhone developers are having a hard time getting paidWowUnbelievableSucksMan that really sucks. I hope Apple has a good reason for this bullcwap immature behaviour.GRINDING is how the rich...get rich.Imagine the outrage......if this were Microsoft. Too bad there's not an app...

Tags: Financial services, Operational accounting, AppStore, Apple Inc., iPhone Developers, developer, bank, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Windows 7 setup secrets

Windows 7 setup secretsGood tip on the File Repository...You learn something new every day :)Gee...more secrets and tweaks....Did we not see too many of these on Vista.Was W7 not supposed to be easy to use WITHOUT all the secrets and tweaking and secrets and tweaking?How about an OS that does...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows 7 setup secret, setup secret, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-05-01