Self-Repairing Computers 224
Roland Piquepaille writes "Our computers are probably 10,000 times faster than they were twenty years ago. But operating them is much more complex. You all have experienced a PC crash or the disappearance of a large Internet site. What to do to improve the situation? This Scientific American article describes a new method called recovery-oriented computing (ROC). ROC is based on four principles: speedy recovery by using what these researchers call micro-rebooting; using better tools to pinpoint problems in multicomponent systems; build an "undo" function (similar to those in word-processing programs) for large computing systems; and injecting test errors to better evaluate systems and train operators. Check this column for more details or read the long and dense original article if you want to know more."
This would be great (Score:5, Funny)
coupled with self debugging code.
This post (Score:3, Funny)
hmmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I wonder what could ever bring down a large Internet site?
Ahem. [slashdot.org]
test errors (Score:3, Funny)
Computer.... (Score:3, Funny)
Various levels of rebooting... (Score:5, Funny)
Mini-rebooting: Restart Windows 98
Rebooting : Switch off/on power
Macro-rebooting: BSOD.
Mega-rebooting: BSOD--> System crash--> reload OS from Recovery CD--> Reinstall apps --> reinstall screen savers --> reinstall Service Packs --> Say your prayers --> Reboot ---> Curse --> Repeat.
Compulsory M$ joke (Score:3, Funny)
[WARNING]
You have installed Microsoft[tm] Windows[tm]. Would you like to undo your mistake, or are you simply injecting test errors on your system ?
[Undo] [Continue testing]
Excellent (Score:2, Funny)
rm -rf /*
^Z
jut for fun!
Re:Managerspeak (Score:3, Funny)
Magic Server Pixie Dust (Score:3, Funny)
micro-rebooting... (Score:1, Funny)
You now don't reboot(tm) but you micro-reboot(tm) i.e. the system will do that for you! Remember the times when you are writing that important report under MS(r) Word(tm); and the system crashed, and you had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del(tm) to reboot(tm). No more! No more pressing ackward buttons... The system is intelligent enough to do that for you :)
"operating them is much more complex" (Score:2, Funny)
My first "PC" was a PDP-11/20, with paper tape reader and linc tape storage. Anyone who tries to tell me that operating today's computers is much more complex needs to take some serious drugs.
What is more complex is what today's computers do, and increasing their reliability or making them goal oriented are both laudable goals. What will not be accomplished is making the things that these computers actually do less complex.
The long wondered about origin of ... (Score:0, Funny)
Finally, this provides us with the long awaited answer to the following situations:
Reed: Captain, direct hit on the power supply!
Archer: That'll teach those cyborgs for flooding our inbox with p0rn!
T'Pol: Captain, their server is mysteriously repairing itself, we're still being flooded.
for any other series:
TOS:
%s/Reed/Checkov/g
%s/Archer/Kirk/
%s/T'Pol/Spock/g
TNG:
%s/Reed/Worf/g
%s/Arch
%s/T'Pol/Data/g
DS9:
%s/Reed/Kira/g
%s/Archer/Sisko/g
%s/T'Pol/Dax/g
VGR:
%s/Reed
%s/Archer/Janeway/g
%s/T'Pol/Kim/g
Since the B&B messed up the timelines anyway, they'll probably pour it into an episode, they seem to be out of inspiration anyhow...
DWIM (Score:3, Funny)
'IMPORTANT' 'NEW' 'DISCOVERY'! (Score:3, Funny)
Scientists discovered this week that well-known and rather obvious software engineering concepts like componentization and redundancy could seem new and impressive if written up like Science!
Although this week's breakthrough yielded little direct benefit, it is theorized that applying the verbal style of Science to other subjects, such as aromatherapy and running shoes, could have highly profitable results.
Oh yeah. (Score:3, Funny)
Oh yeah. My TRS-80 used to NEVER crash twenty years ago when I accessed LARGE INTERNET SITES.