Internets of Interest:21 Dec 09

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 21 Dec 09:

• Dangerous Minds | Flying The Stressful Skies: Drone-​​Pilot Burnout -
  

  Fifty-​​seven per­cent of crew-​​member-​​related mis­haps were, they write, “con­sist­ent with situ­ation aware­ness errors asso­ci­ated with per­cep­tion of the environment” — meaning that it’s hard to grasp your envir­on­ment when you’re not actu­ally in it.

  

I have designed, built and sup­por­ted a num­ber of remote data centre that I have never seen, and that lack of situ­ational aware­ness has led to mis­takes. I am forced to work on a sub­set of avail­able inform­a­tion when mak­ing changes or oper­a­tional decisions. It seems it a uni­ver­sal prob­lem, the mil­it­ary just has the money to do the research.

• CCDE Bootcamps UK, USA & Hong Kong, CCDE Training Courses, CCDE Written & Lab Preparation — First com­pany I’ve seen offer­ing CCDE bootcamps.
• Which Is the Top Tech Company to Work For? – GigaOM — Cisco isn’t on the list. 

Why should I care ? A com­pany with unhappy work­ers is not a com­pany to be a cus­tomer of. Unhappy work­ers don’t care about my prob­lems, they are busy look­ing to go some­where else (home, another com­pany, whatever) and aren’t inter­ested in mak­ing my life better.
• HPA — Wi-​​Fi -
  

  There is no con­sist­ent evid­ence to date that Wi-​​Fi and WLANs adversely affect the health of the gen­eral pop­u­la­tion. The sig­nals are very low power, typ­ic­ally 0.1 watt (100 mil­li­watts) in both the com­puter and the router (access point) and the res­ults so far show expos­ures are well within inter­na­tion­ally accep­ted (ICNIRP) guidelines. Based on cur­rent know­ledge and exper­i­ence, radio fre­quency (RF) expos­ures from Wi-​​Fi are likely to be lower than those from mobile phones. Also, the fre­quen­cies used in Wi-​​Fi are broadly the same as those from tra­di­tional RF applications.

  Remember: your mobile phone has a typ­ical out­put of 1.2 Watts. That is TWELVE time more power­ful that a Wi-​​FI and can boost up to 3 Watts, that’s thirty times more power­ful. The radio sig­nal from the mobile phones around you are far greater than any Wireless Ethernet net­work. If you can’t make sense of that, go and stand in front of your microwave oven and give it some thought.

• EDS main­frame goes tit­sup, crashes RBS cheque sys­tem • The Register — HP sacks a bunch of key EDS staff after the mer­ger to achieve “cost sav­ings”. Maintenance on the main­frames stopped and then they fell over and one of the largest banks in Europe can no longer pro­cess cheques.

That’s another Cloud Computing fail­ure from where I stand.

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