Crackberry on Ice

Blackberry confesses software bug for email blackout:

Ruling out those causes, the company has "determined that the incident was
triggered by the introduction of a new, noncritical system routine that was
designed to provide better optimization of the system's cache." In computing
terms, a cache is a temporary storage area for that allows data to be served up
quickly.

Those "easy fix" can quickly turn into a meltdown. Never underestimate the power of a software change to completely bring down a system. I remember my (former) boss making a quick, simple patch for our manufacturing folks (he used to maintain the code but was away from it for some time when he did the fix) but didn't thoroughly test it and guess what? It broke the system so bad, there had to be another fix made while holding up a production in the meanwhile. My coworkers and I had a good chuckle over that one...

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Tech: Automated and computerized frustrations

"The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products: Obtrusive behavior, irritating habits, constant nagging--crummy products have bugged you for years. Here are the ones you say have bothered you most." Which has a great list of bad tech products. But my favorite is a section called "14 Surefire Ways to Annoy Users." I could add more to the list but much of that you can read in my older blog entries.

Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to this problem since human factor is more of an art than science.

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Drive or Partition Imaging Software

I've been using Norton Ghost for a while to do my backups but it turns out that their version 10.0 changes the drive such that I can't back it up like I used to with Drive Image software. I've tried to uninstall and clean out the registry but it made it unusable, so I'm not able to run it at all (and probably have to clear some bits on the HDD).

Googling around, I found:

Free Hard Disk and Partition Imaging and Backup Software

so I'll try PING first and see how that goes...

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