Hello,
I worry sometimes about cosmic interference or electric magnetic interference or just mobile energy signal interference with computers.
Is anybody measuring "rate of computer crashes" ?
It will be hard to do because the computer industry changes all the time.
New software, new hardware, according to Balmer to only constant is change.
If nobody is measuring the reliability of computer systems then I can recommend the following:
- Build a computer
- Install software.
- Let it run forever.
- Don't change a thing, except when hardware breaks.
Then during all of this:
Try to measure two things:
- Rate of failure/system crashes.
- Rate of freezes/hangs.
Perhaps it's already to late to start this measurement, however better late than never.
Nowadays the world full with mobile phones and mobile signals.
It would be interesting to see if there is a sudden change in rate failures or freezes.
For intel or amd or any other processor manufacturer and also hardware producers it could be interesting to measure these failure rates.
And perhaps try and design computer chips which will fail less and be more tolerant towards these kinds of external sources of interference.
To have a competive edge over competitors.
It may even save your life on day. Perhaps you will be onboard a flight/plane and if it's computers fail you may die if not you may life another day.
Bye, Skybuck.