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Diagnosis of TCP Overlay Connection Failures Using Bayesian Networks
White Papers When failures occur in Internet overlay connections today, it is difficult for users to determine the root cause of failure. To address this problem, a passive diagnosis approach is developed that infers the most likely cause of failure using a...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
STAR: An Efficient Coding Scheme for Correcting Triple Storage Node Failures
White Papers For such schemes, low decoding complexity for correcting (or recovering) storage node failures is essential for practical systems. This paper describes a new coding scheme, which it calls the STAR code, for correcting triple storage node failures...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Subtleties in Tolerating Correlated Failures in Wide-Area Storage Systems
White Papers Tolerating correlated failures is a key issue in achieving high availability in today's wide-area environments. This paper systematically revisits previously proposed techniques for addressing correlated failures.
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Model Checking Networked Programs in the Presence of Transmission Failures
White Papers Conversion of processes into threads, combined with a network model, allows for model checking distributed applications, but does not cover potential communication failures. Software model checkers work directly on single-process programs, but not...
[June 27, 2007, 1:00]
10 years of IT failures, and what has the government learned?
News The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report, Achieving Value for Money in the Delivery of Public Services, says that despite the PAC's reviews of many high-profile IT failures over the last decade many departments still disregard common and well...
[December 7, 2005, 9:00]
Civil Service Failures
Talkback Senior and middle management must be made to take career responsibility for their errors and failures and must either be sacked or demoted down to below their ability and competency ceiling. Yet again we have another costly management failure in...
[December 16, 2008, 12:28]
Vista is #1 (of the Ten Biggest Failures of the Last Decade)
Blog Just read an interesting article listing the Ten Biggest Failures of the Last Decade. How nice to see that Vista is #1 at something! I wonder if Microsoft will have two of the top ten spots a year or so from now, when Windows 7 has been out for a...
[May 15, 2009, 13:26]
E-Commerce Focus: Europe learning from US failures
News Specifically, CIN - a division of system integrator and consultant Cambridge Technology Partners - said European enterprises have benefited from taking a more rounded approach to commerce after noting the failures of first-time-around projects.
[July 7, 1998, 12:28]
Microsoft's IM and Hotmail show sporadic failures
Talkback Hotmail rejects submitted "help form" repeatedly; I am unable to report frequent failures to post messages (with deletion of sent messages), denial of access, and delay in receiving mail. Problems increased in February, 2005.
[February 24, 2005, 0:21]
Child Support IT failures savaged
News An estimated 36,000 new cases have become "stuck" in the system due to IT failures and are currently unable to progress without manual intervention by the CSA staff. The Child Support Agency (CSA) IT system has been branded one of the "worst public...
[July 3, 2006, 10:45]
Ten failures that went down in IT history
Comment This time, I have set out a few of the biggest failures in IT, although I tried to avoid the tired old items trotted out by everyone. Do you agree or disagree with the items on my list of biggest IT failures?
[November 20, 2009, 11:40]
A Study of End-to-End Web Access Failures
White Papers This paper presents a study of end-to-end web access failures in the Internet. Part of the characterization of failures is based on directly observable end-to-end information. The paper also presents novel analyses that reveal aspects of end-to-end...
[May 25, 2007, 1:00]
Documents reveal Carnivore failures
News A privacy watchdog group on Tuesday made public internal FBI documents that discuss failures of the agency's Carnivore online surveillance technology. The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), detail at least one incident...
[May 29, 2002, 9:13]
A Backup Route Aware Routing Protocol - Fast Recovery From Transient Routing Failures
White Papers As the Internet becomes the critical information infrastructure for both personal and business applications, survivable routing protocols need to be designed that maintain the performance of those services in the presence of failures.
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Microsoft's IM and Hotmail show sporadic failures
Talkback I am sick to death of hotmail's constant failures! Still cannot access my emails
[September 10, 2005, 13:31]
Microsoft's IM and Hotmail show sporadic failures
Talkback would you be able to tell me why sametimes i can not read my e-mail, when i click on mail it shows me that i have for example one, but when i want to open it, only shows me the re: and i can not read the rest, please help.i am sort of new using my...
[August 14, 2005, 18:30]
Microsoft's IM and Hotmail show sporadic failures
Talkback I cant get in right now. I had trouble on Friday too
[March 17, 2004, 18:27]
Microsoft's IM and Hotmail show sporadic failures
Talkback today is Wednesday, haven't got into hotmail in almost a week.
[March 17, 2004, 18:55]
Microsoft's IM and Hotmail show sporadic failures
Talkback i have been trying allday (22nd sept to get into hotmail, my partner can get into his but i cannot.
[September 23, 2005, 21:10]
Microsoft's IM and Hotmail show sporadic failures
Talkback for me and several of my friends, hotmail is STILL only available in early morning hours! It's very frustrating and I am thinking of changing to another email service.in Houston, TX
[March 17, 2004, 20:21]
