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Building fault-tolerant, high-availability (FTHA) systems has a dark side; an engineering trade off of between reliability and predictability. This should be obvious to anyone who has studied biological organisms. I define an organism as a complex system partitioned into highly specialized and tightly interrelated parts. This can describe a cell, a human being, or a FTHA system whether it supports an e-commerce site, vital infrastructure control, process control, or command and control.

This post has been redeacted as honestly, I felt I didn't do an effective job in the point of doing blasts post. (humor first and foremost)

Recently, I built a new desktop for the first time since 2005. Usually I do one to two upgrades on an annual basis, but in recent years this was changed as I used my laptop as my primary computer and my desktop was mainly for games and entertainment. With my laptop's motherboard dying though, I decided to start using my desktop more. Now the machine specs I went with were the following:

Intel Core i5 3570 (Normally functions at 3.4 ghz speed, but for me it went up to 3.6 ghz straight out of the gate due to the turbo boost when I ran Prime 95 tests)
Gigabyte H77-DS3H motherboard (Chose that over X77 as I don't need overclocking)
Nvidia Geforce 480 GTX
Sound Blaster Audigy 4 (I'm hanging on to that like grim death)
BD-ROM Drive and DVD-+RW Drive
16 gigs of 1600 mhz DDR3 RAM

Disclaimer: The following posts expresses Amp's views and opinions with the nerd rage intentionally turned up to 11 for humor based reasons and not of any other members of SX. As always, this post is covered by the SX usage policy.

Disclaimer: Like always, these are only Amp's views turned up to 11 on nerd rage for humorous intent and is covered by the SX usage policy.

This may very well be a divisive matter since there are plenty of Steam fanboys. For that matter, Valve has done numerous high quality games. However, some recent evidence has come to light that now has me saying that I have had enough. Today, its time that Valve's decisions be taken to task appropriately.

Disclaimer: Like always, the following are the views and opinions of Amp intentionally tuned up to 11 for entertainment purposes. These articles do not reflect the views of other members of SX, but does fall under this site's user agreement.

This has been a while in the making and was what prompted me to start making blasts posts about issues relating to Cell Phone companies. Now, everybody knows that AT&T is in reality the name SBC (Which several people I know have opted to nickname it Stupid Bitchass Corporation) started to use due to the bad rep their name was starting to receive. Speaking from experience, I know that Verizon is the king of bullshit charges and trying to withhold deposits. What people don't know though is how big of hypocrites Sprint is and I have several reasons for saying it.

This time we are going to discuss some of the more advanced features of AHK. my last tutorial on the subject was rather brief and based on a limited amount of experience using AHK for daily tasks. Two years have passed and AHK is a big part of my toolbox so it's time for an update.

First an example of my day to day:

Disclaimer: The following views and opinion are Amp's only and are not SX's views. In addition, this is not in the vein of Amp Blasts and is done to be more serious.

By this point, most of our US viewers know about the details of the unfortunate shootings that took place in Aurora, Colorado. I don't feel like I need to go over the details of that tragic incident. If individuals want to focus on that incident, my suggestion is to be concerned with the well-being of the victims and their families as they most likely need as much support as possible. What this post focuses on instead is on some aspects of the media and authority figures who rather than focus on that, have worked to try to find something to blame and in some cases seek to profit from incidents such as this as after seeing posts like this I felt this needed to be addressed.

Disclaimer: The following is intended to be for entertainment purposes only. These are the views of Amp only and are intentionally turned up to eleven in terms of nerd rage for the enjoyment of readers.

Since I took the piss straight out of Android, I figured its time to go after an aspect of the iPhone that does legitimately bother me. Now before I continue I will state that I legitimately feel that iOS is notedly superior to Android with regard to security, app development, optimization, and being generally user friendly. The one weakness that the iPhone itself has is that it cannot be customized as much as the android, but honestly speaking it isn't necessary. The big issue with the iPhone are the fan-boys who blindly support it and are generally uninformed.

Disclaimer: Like always, the following are the views and opinions of Amp intentionally tuned up to 11 for entertainment purposes. These articles do not truly reflect the views of other members of SX, but does fall under this site's user agreement.

I have recently stated my issues with cell phones, but after getting the opportunity to see current smart-phones in action I have seen how useful they CAN be. However, the fact of the matter is that there are some major issues with smart-phones and in particular the current setup. In particular, most of what I have seen is that these days it is a two horse race between Android and iOS with other solutions really not picking up much steam in comparison. In the case of Android, there are some serious issues with the the platform that are senseless by nature.