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Is that a virus, or a malfunction?
News Today's PC viruses, Trojan horses, worms, and blended threats can cause run-of-the-mill Windows or application problems, out-of-memory errors, intermittent failures to fully start up, or installation or operation problems with applications.
[October 28, 2002, 17:03]
Good except for CD drive malfunction
Member Review I am completely happy with the product with one exception. The DVD/CD-RW combo was a huge draw at the time, but has turned into a headache. Problems started 1 yr after purchase, just type "HL-DT-ST rw/dvd GCC-4240N problem" into a search engine to...
[September 15, 2004, 10:48]
Faulty transformer downs Large Hadron Collider
News Not long after the Large Hadron Collider was launched last week, the world's largest particle collider experienced a malfunction affecting its cooling operations. There was no explanation as to why Cern took so long to announce the malfunction...
[September 19, 2008, 8:07]
Computer glitch causes gridlock at LA airport
News A US Customs computer systems malfunction stranded more than 20,000 international passengers for several hours at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday. Homeland Security officials blamed the malfunction on the fibre optic cables that...
[August 13, 2007, 13:26]
Microsoft on Trial: MS witness concedes DoJ points
News An economist testifying for Microsoft in its antitrust case this morning said software companies that "tie" separate software programs into their operating systems may harm consumers if that integration makes competing programs malfunction.
[January 20, 1999, 15:20]
BlackBerry has twice failure rate of iPhone
News It found iPhones had a malfunction rate of 5.6 percent in the first year, compared to 11.9 percent for BlackBerry smartphones. Palm's Treos fared even worse, with 16.2 percent having some sort of malfunction in the first 12 months of use.
[November 10, 2008, 11:24]
Progress made in Large Hadron Collider repair
News The LHC went offline in September 2008, when a faulty electrical connection between two of its magnets caused a malfunction in the cooling system that keeps the machine below -271°C. That malfunction subsequently led to a helium leak.
[May 1, 2009, 15:38]
LHC restart pushed back again
News The experiment, which is designed to improve scientific understanding of the nature of matter, had to be halted nine days after it was fully powered up, after an electrical malfunction caused a leak of liquid helium.
[June 22, 2009, 13:38]
Kodak pays up over spam charges
Talkback While Kodak’s claim that the spamming was a “was a simple technical malfunction” (Kodak spokeswoman Liz Scanlon as quoted by Reuters) is credible, what surprises me as a competitor (http://fotoinsight.co.uk) is that a campaign by a household name...
[May 12, 2006, 11:51]
IDF: Larrabee, Xeon 3000, Gulftown, Westmere...
Blog A slight pres release malfunction at IDF has led to the afternoon keynote from Sean Maloney appearing in the pigeon holes of the press room a little before its time. It would be impolite to reveal what it says.
[September 22, 2009, 19:05]
LHC restart now on hold until September
News The Large Hadron Collider could be restarted at the end of September — a year after the world's largest particle accelerator was knocked off line by an electrical malfunction. LHC operations were suspended last September after a transformer...
[February 10, 2009, 8:23]
Obama Wikipedia page under possible security attack?
Blog Barack Obama’s web presence may have come under some pressure today as his Wikipedia page appeared to show signs of malfunction for a period between midday GMT and 12:45pm around the time of this blog posting.
[January 22, 2009, 11:52]
The Human Brain + Body + DNA Chips?
Talkback Heart malfunction, Arrhythmia? What are the real possibilities here? What potential: Correcting brain dysfunction, Epilepsy? Circuit bypass units, Severed Spinal Cord? Body function, Enhancement?
[April 25, 2008, 13:57]
RW Theme DC Business
Downloads This is a very important update as the theme now validates correctly, plus a line of code which caused a malfunction has been removed. If you own a previous version please update it today. This theme is based on DaveCantu.com.
[August 30, 2006, 8:00]
Security firm in email deletion fiasco
Talkback It is impossible to oversee such a major malfunction. Well, if this update has been tested how could it be you missed this bug? In fact up till now I have not seen even one statement of GFI how they missed this bug and what they are going to do to...
[March 4, 2005, 23:48]
Kunming Broadcast Television Network Center Reaped Multiple Benefits From Implementing Avaya Contact Center Solution
White Papers Since the introduction of digital television technologies, the communication between KBTNC and its customers has expanded from a single type, which is reporting malfunction, to different layers, such as business inquiry, product customization, and...
[June 11, 2008, 1:01]
Common Mode Susceptibility of Computers
White Papers It has been claimed that common mode noise of levels of less than one volt on the AC power supplied to computer equipment can result in damage or malfunction. These claims are used to promote the sale of isolation transformers or "power conditioners".
[December 1, 2008, 12:46]
Characterizing Network Events and Their Impact on Routing
White Papers Routers, network interface cards, and IP links can fail or malfunction for many reasons. This paper calls network events incidents that disturb the normal behavior of one or more elements of an IP network.
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
Floppy drives near extinction
Talkback They can always replace them with Zip drives but there should always be an alternative to use in case of hard drive malfunction Not a good idea. Floppy Drives should always be available.
[January 18, 2004, 6:13]
Card Backup for CASSIOPEIA E-200
Downloads Pocket PC 2002 BackupCard Backup Tool lets you quickly and easily backup your Pocket PC memory data to a memory card.Backed up data can be used to restore your system should it start to malfunction due to some data error.Card Backup Tool can let...
[September 11, 2002, 8:00]
