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modified 15-May-23 19:06pm.
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A friend of mine once again asked me for help with an old machine that he took over when I retired it. Now it is overheating, even when idling (and even if the OS is not yet started and you press F2 to enter BIOS setup).
We looked back, and found that I had retired it in 2010. I don't remember when I bought it. We decided that adding more fans and applying more cooling paste between the CPU and its fan wasn't worth the cost. The PC deserves to be laid to rest.
Sometimes, the fear of spending money on a new PC can go to far.
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Member 14968771 wrote: especially in case of OS failure
OS failure would be due to an update. So you would need to keep backups before each update. Or don't update.
But perhaps you mean due to hardware failure. Then you should engage in being proactive and not reactive. So you replace parts before they can fail. So don't wait until a hard fails but instead track usage and then replace it before it reaches its maximum life time.
Same would be true for other parts in the system (and include new computers as one replacement.)
There are limits to that of course as parts become no longer available so you must adapt.
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And it works - I now have both "ORIGINAL" and "GRIFF" to put on my vehicles ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It didn't go boom, but didn't flew either...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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It went boom. Stage separation failed and the FTS systems activated.
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It was a "rapid unscheduled disassembly"
You can't make this stuff up. Unless you work for SpaceX. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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No, it was "deferred success".
(That, a few years ago, was what teachers in my area had to explain failed exam results as. Seriously.)
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Also: "The joy was not complete." One of my favorites to use (thankfully not that frequent) with child rearing.
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RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) has long been an 'inside joke' term in the space industry. SpaceX didn't create the term, and is very far from the first to have it apply to their operations.
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"That the rocket got off the launch pad was a major success."
Participation trophies all around!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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OT: You are embedded guru aren't you?
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I wouldn't call myself a guru. I'm still trying to get my head around ARM development, and get outside the IoT/Arduino end of things.
I'm told I'm a fast learner though, and that's what's on my plate right now.
Still, I may be able to help with your question (I saw your post downthread) just because what I do intersects with embedded principles all the time.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Does that make it an "award winning rocket"?🙄
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If nothing else, it was extremely successful in removing concrete and dispersing it widely...
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I can’t say I have been in touch with everything taking place in the field but I haven’t heard of failed rocket launches for quite some time.
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SpaceX certainly has them.
There was at least one other failure or sorts. Another country perhaps? They attempted to launch a satellite (spy?) and it failed to separate or failed to activate. Something like that.
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but, but it's supposed to be simple rocket science !!
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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expectations of public vs the people who built it and what they actually testing for
I feel this from project dev, on agreeing months ago will release proof of concept for feedback and will only have X features.
then the first feedback is, "it doesn't do Y" 😒you approved that it wouldn't
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Does anybody know how to reverse the curse? Typing this has been a nightmare.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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What kind of bread? I haven't planned lunch yet.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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THe UK government plan to force this on us soon. It's nice to know they have nothing important to work on.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: soon
3PM this Sunday for the test.
Hopefully slightly less chance of being woken up at that time! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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