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Blockchain vs. a database: What's the difference?
Blockchain has been accused by detractors as nothing more than a more complicated and expensive database. While both technologies offer data storage and management, blockchain has one unique feature a database will never replicate.
And that, kids, is how you boot a system
Sometimes you just need to do a little percussive maintenance.
Flashback Friday: That’s unusual?
It’s a heat wave, but just in the server room.
How he spent his day off
Just before a holiday, this IT support guy calls a remote office to have a pair of tapes changed. But it's not the usual person who does it -- and not the usual result.
'We need new privacy laws,' urges Apple CEO Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook is urging government regulation to regulate shady data brokers and to protect user privacy.
Where's the fire?
This data center has a high-end mainframe, Halon to protect it from fire and an operator who never smokes in the computer room. So which one brings the firefighters?
Not that I ever doubted you...
This government office has two mainframes side by side in its computer room -- and a big problem that only shows up when a computer operator happens to reach out to them.
Christmas has been cancel--er, rescheduled!
Flashback to late 2005, when this pilot fish is part of the 24x7x365 staff for a bank's data center and Christmas is coming -- but not on the day you would expect.
So you think anyone will want this 'timesharing' stuff?
Flashback to the days when the mainframe is king and timesharing is a huge boon for programmers -- who get more than a little jealous when they can't get access to it.
Throwback Thursday: Bin there, done that
It's a few years before eBay, and this IT shop is upgrading one of its oldest machines with external tape drives -- and some obsolete but expensive interface cards.
So much for THAT excuse
It's 2:30 a.m. when this data center pilot fish is awakened from a sound sleep by a call from an inexperienced mainframe operator -- with a show-stopping problem.
Oh, THAT SMP!
Mainframe database admin is responsible for supporting two divisions at this big bank -- and they're not on the same page when it comes to rolling out software updates.
Your emergency isn't MY emergency
This data center's monitoring console is lit up like a Christmas tree when the staff arrives at work one morning -- but the power outage isn't their biggest problem.
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