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Reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time.

Reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time.

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NO-SQL reliable for small business app?

I'm deciding between go for a NON-SQL engine or a regular SQL one for a document managment system for small bussines. I have experience with firebird/sql server and found a good track of reliability (specially with firebird). This market is full of…
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What will it take for Transactional Memory to be viable?

I've been doing some work on transactional memory and its viability for systems programming (databases, operating systems, servers, etc.). My own experience employing transactions, together with having seen how few communities use transactions in…
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If UDP packets are on the wire, am I guaranteed to get them at the application layer?

Firstly I appreciate the UDP is not a reliable protocol, and I am not guaranteed to receive packets across a network. However, if the packet does reach my machine, am I guaranteed to receive it at the application level, or can the network stack…
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Is this the right way to calculate the fletcher64 checksum

The fletcher16 source code is given like this on wikipedia. uint16_t Fletcher16( uint8_t* data, int count ) { uint16_t sum1 = 0; uint16_t sum2 = 0; int index; for( index = 0; index < count; ++index ) { sum1 = (sum1 +…
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Reliability of corrupted state exception handling

I'm currently looking into reliability features and exception handling of C# / .NET These are especially the HandleProcessCorruptedStateExceptions attribute and CER s with PrepareConstrainedRegions. Now I was reading the reference source code of the…
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How to get/utilize SQLite row ID reliably with C API when user hide all the column names?

According to SQLite documentation, All tables have rowid by default, and it cannot be removed. And this rowid can be accessed with rowid, oid or _rowid_. Anyway database users can add the new column with the names freely, and the columns will be…
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ColdFusion scheduled tasks reliable?

Now this might be a very vague question but how reliable are scheduled tasks? For example if I setup a task to do something everyday at 3pm, and assuming there are no errors in the code, will ColdFusion always make sure it runs 3pm everyday?
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Enclosing external jQuery script

I have an external JavaScript file that will be used on pages with lots of other scripts. My script involves a lot of jQuery that listens for events, and by design, I have many global vars declared. I've been reading best practice articles, and a…
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CUDD C++ Interface for converting Booleans to BDDs and resulting set of minterms (to cutsets)

I'm working with (https://github.com/ivmai/cudd) with the goal of the following repetitive process: (1) Input: (Coherent, non-decreasing) Boolean function expression top = a_1a_2a_3...+ x_1x_2x_3... + z_1z_2z_3...). The Booleans I'm working with…
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Highly inaccurate result in OpenTURNS reliability model when using subset of RandomVector

I have a reliability model built in OpenTURNS with several limit state functions, that take anywhere from two to eight random variables (RVs). My initial attempt was to define a single RandomVector with all eight variables, and use this RandomVector…
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Better to use IP addresses or hostnames in code which relies on the network?

If you are programming an application which is heavily using the network (e.g. pings, dns resolves, etc), is it better to use IP addresses in the code (e.g. if making a folder path on a server - //192.183.181.182/test/test1 for example), or…
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Is iterating over the same frozenset guaranteed always to produce the items in the same order? (Python 3)

For example, when I execute frozen = frozenset(('kay', 'snow queen')), then tuple(frozen), I get ('kay', 'snow queen'). (When / how) is it possible, if ever, for iter(frozen) to produce the items in a different order? (When / how) will tuple(frozen)…
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Improving UDP reliability

I am building a small UDP based server. the server is based on .Net and uses the Socket class it self. I'm using completion ports through ReceiveMessageFromAsync, and the async send. My problem is I'm loosing around 5%-10% of my traffic. Now i…
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What's the reliability of Google Chart API service?

I'm considering using Google Chart API. Is the API stable? Is the service uptime any good? There are no warranties about it on the Terms of Service. Has anyone known of large downtime periods?
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How may I teach that SOAP is not a reliable transport?

I need to teach that a HTTP SOAP call may be received but the caller may not get the response due to a network failure (among other problems). (This problem made WS-ReliableMessaging be developed) How would you guys show this problem to a web…
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