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NHS critical IT faults double in three years
News The number of severe faults in NHS computer systems has almost doubled over the past three years. Last year nationwide NHS computer systems suffered 820 severity-one or critical faults, up from 488 in 2006.
[February 3, 2009, 7:35]
Skype - Is 10,000 Page Faults per Second normal?
Blog Comment I guess that while the 'support FAQ script' states that Page faults occur as part of normal operation (the default message that was the reason for closing the bug reports), I doubt there was any information related to statistics or thresholds for...
[December 6, 2007, 13:59]
Microsoft Access 7.0 Update: Fixes invalid page faults
Downloads The update fixes a problem with invalid page faults, which may occur in the following scenarios: As you develop form modules in Microsoft Access, over time, you may receive an "Invalid Page Fault in VBA232.dll" error message.
[October 25, 1999, 7:00]
Design faults: Exhibits #1 and #2
Blog Comment Some design faults are clearly subjective, what irritates one person is a godsend for another. Other design faults are true faults. Like the toshiba satellite pro 6100 from several years back.that had a video card that popped out of it's socket...
[January 20, 2009, 17:44]
Sony covers Vaio laptop users against Nvidia faults
Blog Only a small percentage of Vaio users experience difficulties, according to Sony in the US, which has provided a list of the problems and the Vaio models affected by the Nvidia faults. Sony is extending the warranty on certain Vaio laptops to cover...
[August 12, 2009, 15:14]
Design faults: Exhibits #1 and #2
Blog One of the things that amazes me both in work and personal life is how some really bad design faults can make it past product testing and into the real world. There are degrees of terribleness here. In some instances what one person will see as a...
[January 19, 2009, 16:15]
Skype - Is 10,000 Page Faults per Second normal?
Blog Comment Someone is lying about this, probably more than one person, and they are desperate to cover up whatever it is that they are doing in that process thread that is producing all of these Page Faults. We are aware of the high number of page faults and...
[December 6, 2007, 21:52]
Skype - Is 10,000 Page Faults per Second normal?
Blog Comment Hi, thanks for the comment, observations and suggestions. The problem is, Mr. Liive is "purported" to be with Skype Development, not Support. In addition, while the "User Forums" are clearly for user discussion, and any involvement of Skype Staff...
[December 6, 2007, 14:23]
A great phone but has a few faults
Member Review It's a great looking phone, just got it yesterday but it seems like it's a bit faulty because the software seems to be crashing and I have to keep resetting it to get it working again. My mate got the same phone and seems to be having a similar...
[October 20, 2005, 13:52]
Non-Adaptive Fault Diagnosis for All-Optical Networks Via Combinatorial Group Testing on Graphs
White Papers This paper considers the fault diagnosis problem in all-optical networks, focusing on probing schemes to detect faults. Using this framework, several new probing schemes are developed to detect network faults.
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Adaptive Correctness Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Hierarchical Distributed Run-Time Invariant Checking
White Papers This paper presents a hierarchical approach for detecting faults in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) after they have been deployed. H-SEND is able to detect a large class of faults in data gathering WSNs and leverages the existing message flow in...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
Framework for Testing the Fault-Tolerance of Systems Including OS and Network Aspects
White Papers This paper presents an extensible framework for testing the behavior of networked machines running the Linux operating system in the presence of faults. The framework allows injecting a variety of faults, such as faults in the computing core or...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
UMLinux - A Versatile SWIFI Tool
White Papers This tool presentation describes UMLinux, a versatile framework for testing the behavior of networked machines running the Linux operating system in the presence of faults. UMLinux can inject a variety of faults into the hardware of simulated...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Compiler-Directed Program-Fault Coverage for Highly Available Java Internet Services
White Papers This paper presents a new approach that uses compiler-directed fault-injection for coverage testing of recovery code in Internet services to evaluate their robustness to operating system and I/O hardware faults.
[June 23, 2007, 1:00]
A Comparative Evaluation of Tests Generated From Different UML Diagrams
White Papers This experiment found that the statechart test sets did better at revealing unit level faults than the sequence diagram test sets, and the sequence diagram test sets did better at revealing integration level faults than the statechart test sets.
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Using Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System to Increase Availability of SAP NetWeaver
White Papers From time to time, faults will occur within the data center. The unparalleled integration of file system and clustered application management of CFS and VCS ensures that faults which arise are detected and handled proactively.
[August 5, 2009, 1:21]
Evaluating Availability of Networked Storages Using Commercial Workloads
White Papers By injecting network faults, controller faults, and disk faults into the SAN system, the paper observes and analyzes system availability in terms of performability (performance + availability). This paper presents an availability study of Storage...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
BT takes blame for wireless broadband debacle
News The telco admitted that the circuit ordered by FDM Broadband to connect a wireless network in the Berkshire village of Lambourn had suffered several faults, and that both this connection and a second at another Berkshire village were installed...
[December 12, 2003, 15:30]
Why can Skype not just be forthcoming?
Talkback It is not only one user, or a few users, who have a problem with Skype producing excessive Page Faults. Every installation of the current version of Skype (3.6) produces somewhere between 700 and 10,000 Page Faults per Second, constantly.
[December 7, 2007, 19:38]
Is Orange's free broadband really free?
News To rub salt into the wound, Orange has also started billing users of the real "free" package 50p a minute to report faults. Carphone Warehouse responds to faults on a cheaper, national-rate number. Those tempted by Orange's promise of free...
[December 14, 2006, 16:05]
