No thats a different one, and IBM fessed up and replaced the duff ones we had with no questions.

Fujitsu HDD had a failure rate of about 80% outside the warranty period and Fujitsu just went "lalalal fingers in ears we are not listening" and cost us many thousands - we had a couple of hundred fail inside of six months. They knew there was a problem, they just decided to stonewall and completely ignore people.

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There are only a couple of companies that I won't flat out work for - Fujitsu is the most egregious of them. Remember the great Fujitsu hard drive debacles of the 2002 era? This was one reason and Horizons is another.

Fujitsu have lied on the stand, have colluded with the Post Office to insert false accounts into the system (they had update access to other peoples accounts and were falsley inserting records at the Post Offices behest) They have perjured on the stand, they have conspired (and succeeded!) in perverting the course of justice, and so far they have gotten away with it.

It is high time that people simply stopped working for them. Any recruiter that calls me wanting to offer a contract is told in no uncertain terms where to go. Refuse to deal with them. Don't consider them for tender. It's not worth your companies good name to contract with these people. They are cheap for a reason - and you can see this now.

Simply cut them off and punish them properly for their decades of failing in this regard. It's your moral duty to do so.

The judge at the Appeal Court has already sent a file to the prosecutors detailing where the errors and effectivly inviting them to go after the relevant people for perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

This story has a lot longer to rumble as well - several of the victims committed sucide and there is always the chance of corporate manslaughter charges being brought.

You've clearly not visited the parts I know and work in then, which over the last 30 years is pretty much most of it.

There are only a couple of companies that I won't flat out work for - Fujitsu is the most egregious of them. Remember the great Fujitsu hard drive debacles of the 2002 era? This was one reason and Horizons is another.

Fujitsu have lied on the stand, have colluded with the Post Office to insert false accounts into the system (they had update access to other peoples accounts and were falsley inserting records at the Post Offices behest) They have perjured on the stand, they have conspired (and succeeded!) in perverting the course of justice, and so far they have gotten away with it.

It is high time that people simply stopped working for them. Any recruiter that calls me wanting to offer a contract is told in no uncertain terms where to go. Refuse to deal with them. Don't consider them for tender. It's not worth your companies good name to contract with these people. They are cheap for a reason - and you can see this now.

Simply cut them off and punish them properly for their decades of failing in this regard. It's your moral duty to do so.

I used to hunt with a .303 rifle. Single shot bolt action, precise headspacing, accurate as anything and lots of stopping power. You wont get that from a gas operated system with an automatic bolt. If you really do need that fast a rate of fire then you are using a 223 for birds, and a shotgun is a much better bet...

Sitting from the other side of the pond I wonder the same. We've slid down the same path in the UK and everyone is scared of terrorists, despite the fact we've had the IRA for 40 years, and they killed a lot more people over a lot longer time period than the current mob did.

I've never figured out why we stood up and gave the Irish the finger and refused to be cowed by them as much as they do with the current mob.

You need to keep the neutron count down in a fissile mass being compressed, to prevent premature detonation and a resulting fizzle. (which is why weapons grade Pu keeps the 240 percentage small, to keep teh background neutron flux down.)

Now imagine tossing that warhead into an evironment just after a nuke has gone off. There is a lot of background neutrons from the fission products and fallout. If you implode the next warhead too soon it'll fizzle from this external increase in the neutron flux. Hence the need to seperate them in time to give the active decay products chance to also decay and get the neutron flux down,

The British police did just that, except they lied from the start and said they were destroying the records. Several years later they had a huge illegal database, so got the law changed to make it legal.

IF the police want your DNA, do your level best not to give it them. Once given you won't get it back.

Or the British way..

1. Ask for DNA samples to clear people from the investigation
2. Routinely sample DNA from people arrested.
3. Lie about keeping the samples.
4. Wait a few years
5. When get caught with a huge, illegally colelcted database whine it's useful and get the law changed so it's legal

Never trust the police. They have a binary few, Policeman, and guilty perps. If you are not a copper you are guilty, of something, and if not then we can find something.

If it costs that much in downtime you don't put it all on one server. Warm standbys or a failover cluster please....

I'd have to disagree. I've got just under a third of a million tapes in library and these problems simply don't occur. What you are describing is a mangement issue, not a technology issue.

Are they garuanteed to start up again in six years time? No stuck spindles? How about in 20 years? Tapes are. I've yet to see a drive that is.

Learn how modern tape catalogs work then - you can seek with a tape to any position you want you know and then you start reading. you dont have to read the first file before you can read the end...