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Power Failures
Member Review The connector between the motherboard and the power control daughterboard has poor solder joints exacerbated by too much power routed through too small connections.
[November 19, 2003, 10:23]
10 ways to protect systems from electrical damage
News Placing excessive demands upon a circuit can result in intermittent power failures, wide variations in available electricity and even fire hazards, as overworked circuits exceed safe operating ranges.
[July 20, 2006, 17:35]
How CIOs can help fight cyberterror
News In fact, tabletop exercises conducted by actual owners and operators of critical infrastructures in the Pacific Northwest (code named Black Ice, from which I took the title of my book) have already demonstrated how cyber- or physically induced...
[July 24, 2003, 14:44]
Too many hardware problems
Member Review -motherboard power failures
bad keyboard
screen problems
mouse software glitches
[August 16, 2004, 13:28]
Worm 'did not cause' US blackout
News A US and Canadian task force investigating the August 2003 blackout that cut power to an estimated 50 million North Americans published its final report on Monday, finding that institutional, human and computer failures -- not the MSBlast worm...
[April 6, 2004, 9:05]
IT skills gap costs Britain billions
Talkback The decisions that cause major IT project failures are almost always caused by senior level business people and have more to do with personal power politics than technical issues. In all the IT failures that I am familiar with, experienced “IT...
[April 22, 2004, 11:45]
Computing Aggregates for Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Given their unattended nature, and their potential applications in harsh environments, the paper needs a monitoring infrastructure that indicates system failures and resource depletion. Wireless sensor networks involve very large numbers of small...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Power Struggle: How IT Managers Cope With Data Center Power Demands and the Raptor Solution
White Papers The primary goals for data center operators are to save power costs and cool the systems to prevent heat-induced failures, expand data center space without straining the company budget every time an expansion occurs and plan a distributed data...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Recovery Toolbox for Access
Downloads The causes of such incidents vary from power and hardware failures to human mistakes and virus attacks. Being by far the most popular database management application on the market, Microsoft Access has millions of users worldwide.
[June 5, 2009, 15:15]
A Comparative Study of Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Routing algorithms must also be robust to failures, and provide low latency. Due to the limited processing power, and finite power available to each sensor node, regular ad hoc routing techniques cannot be directly applied to sensor networks domain.
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Managing Iron With BMC Software and Sentry Software
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn more about how BMC and Sentry can detect and isolate hardware failures in the servers and in the Storage Area Network (SAN). The presenter will discover also which servers, switches or disk arrays weigh the...
[August 1, 2009, 1:21]
Broadband over power lines sparks interest again
News But technology limitations, policy disputes and expensive failures have consistently left BPL hanging. Technical limitations have long frustrated attempts to deliver broadband Internet access over power lines, but the idea is once again sparking...
[February 25, 2004, 10:36]
A Protocol Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Because of the tremendous scale at which such nodes can be deployed, they are extremely robust in terms of individual node failures which make them all the more favorable in such extreme situations. Huge strides taken in sensing technology, low...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Transmeta's low power finds place in supercomputers
News According to the labs, the 24-blade forerunner to Green Destiny, Metablade, took just two hours to configure and get running and in nine months of use had no hardware or software failures -- resulting in a total administrative cost for a projected...
[May 20, 2002, 12:47]
Data centres face cooling crisis
News Given the increasing use of high-density hardware such as multi-core processors and blade servers, excessive power and cooling demands could lead to a rise in server failures, according to Aperture Research Institute (ARI), a division of software...
[April 13, 2007, 10:02]
Research aims to stop battery attackers
News If a system has a battery backup unit for use during power failures, a power-based attack could cause the backup unit to fail before power is restored," Martin said. The threat could be even more menacing to businesses that use battery backup...
[November 22, 2002, 16:12]
A more efficient and cost effective renewable energy system is needed.
Talkback A synchronous system automatically disconnects the utility power from the house and operates like an off-grid home during power failures. In California, you also have the impediment, that when there are an interruption of power supply by the...
[May 20, 2008, 13:48]
Western Digital ships high-speed 2TB hard drive
News The WD RE4 2TB enterprise drive features 1.2 million hours mean time between failures (MTBF) and other power-saving, speed-enhancing and fail-proofing technologies. Other features include IntelliSeek, a technology that calculates optimum seek...
[September 3, 2009, 14:57]
Furious Redbus users demand honesty
News A third commented: "[Redbus' explanation] does not seem to square with the number of power supply and hard disk failures that seem to have resulted. If one company alone lost nearly 30 industrial grade uninterruptible power supplies in the incident...
[March 8, 2005, 13:35]
Olympics arms against virus threat
News Roughly 300 different crisis scenarios were tested during a one-week period, including information security issues -- such as uncontrolled access to the data network and computer viruses -- power outages, equipment failures and rescheduled sports...
[July 23, 2004, 8:20]
