Re: Oracle
It's the old problem of someone "playing safe"
It used to be that no-one got fired for "buying ibm" even if said ibm kit was a steaming pile of manure
just substitute oracle for ibm ....
Posts by batt-geek
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UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project
Oh, what a feeling: Toyota building robots that get better with practice
Thursday 17th October 2024 07:05 GMT
i suspect the big problem will be battery life - i can't imagine that robot would be operational for more than maybe 30 minutes moving around
add in any significant load to carry and that will drop dramatically, so either they will need to be tethered to a power distribution grid or they are going to need multiple units per "position" that they can rotate in as the charge depletes / is recharged
A nice cup of tea rewired the datacenter and got things working again
Friday 30th August 2024 08:20 GMT
back in the early days of the UK's national lottery i worked for a company in bracknell that was involved with the networking for this new lottery; their datacenter was a glorified portacabin on stilts in the warehouse
Everything worked well but i remember shortly before i left that we needed to add another power circuit for a digital alpha machine.
I was down there with the sparky when he opened the large electrical distribution box at the back of the cabin; sitting in the bottom was a mug of very old, mostly dried out coffee
"i always wondered where that mug went" was all he said, and then simply carried on adding the new wiring.
needless to say i checked that distro box before it was sealed back up...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
