| | | | 
  fortune index  all fortunes 
  
 |  |  | #2071 |  | Our informal mission is to improve the love life of operators worldwide. -- Peter Behrendt, president of Exabyte
 
 |  |  |  | #2072 |  | Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done,
 In kernel as it is in user!
 
 |  |  |  | #2073 |  | Over the shoulder supervision is more a need of the manager than the programming task.
 
 |  |  |  | #2074 |  | Overall, the philosophy is to attack the availability problem from two complementary directions:  to reduce the number of software errors through
 rigorous testing of running systems, and to reduce the effect of the remaining
 errors by providing for recovery from them.  An interesting footnote to this
 design is that now a system failure can usually be considered to be the
 result of two program errors:  the first, in the program that started the
 problem; the second, in the recovery routine that could not protect the
 system.
 -- A.L. Scherr, "Functional Structure of IBM Virtual Storage
 Operating Systems, Part II: OS/VS-2 Concepts and
 Philosophies," IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4.
 
 |  |  |  | #2075 |  | Overconfidence breeds error when we take for granted that the game will continue on its normal course; when we fail to provide for an unusually
 powerful resource -- a check, a sacrifice, a stalemate.  Afterwards the
 victim may wail, `But who could have dreamt of such an idiotic-looking move?'
 -- Fred Reinfeld, "The Complete Chess Course"
 
 |  |  |  | #2076 |  | Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket. 
 |  |  |  | #2077 |  | Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated. 
 |  |  |  | #2078 |  | panic: can't find / 
 |  |  |  | #2079 |  | panic: kernel segmentation violation. core dumped		(only kidding) 
 |  |  |  | #2080 |  | panic: kernel trap (ignored) 
 |  |  |  |  |  |   ...            ...   | 
 
  art   computers   cookie   definitions   education   ethnic   food   fortunes   humorists   kids   law   literature   love   medicine   men-women   news   paradoxum   people   pets   platitudes   politics   riddles   science   sports   wisdom   work
 | 
 | 
 | 
 |  |  
 | |  |  |  |  | | | You're not logged in! If you don't have an account yet, please register one and get your very own elite (but free) BGA account! | 
 |  | 
 |  |  |  |  | 
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 
 |