Durability Is in the Eye of the Beholder- December 27, 2007 So, I occasionally ponder the D in ACID transactions and wonder what it REALLY means. Observation 1: Committed Subject To... When I was working at Tandem in the 1980s, we had a complex (and fascinating) multiprocessor system with dual-ported disk drives, dual-ported IO controllers, multiple (2 to 16) processors connected via a message-passing bus and it was fault tolerant. I'm very proud of that part of my career when I worked on TMF (Transaction Monitoring Facility) which...http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/archive/2007/12/27/durability-is-in-the-eye-of-the-behold... I Got My Christmas Tree Up at Work...- December 24, 2007 My office is a bit unusual... even for Microsoft. Anyway, during the Christmas Season, I like to add my Christmas Palm Tree that Lisa brought when she moved from Florida. I managed to score some motif appropriate ornaments last year. They are flamingos. This would seem VERY out of place were it not for the rest of the office. I have a couch, recliner, fireplace, PEZ collection (please don't send me more!!), and lots of other paraphernalia. One...http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/archive/2007/12/24/i-got-my-christmas-tree-up-at-work.asp... Monday -- The Coliseum, the Forum, the Palatine Hill, and the Pantheon -- Wow!!- December 5, 2007 So, Monday, November 19th began slow... We were SO exhausted and homesick but there was all of ROME to see! It was warming up into the 40s Fahrenheit and we had a 2PM appointment to meet our tour guide Georgio. We slept in, had trouble finding food by being out of sync with the Italian meal schedule (but ate across the street at a lovely place called Cafe du Paris which was nice but EXPENSIVE -- it would have been expensive if those numbers were dollars but they were...http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/archive/2007/12/05/monday-the-coliseum-the-forum-the-pala... Sunday -- Cold Outside but Loved the Museum...- December 3, 2007 OK... It's Sunday morning, November 17th and we are in Rome until Friday morning. Time to figure out what to do this week! We had received a recommendation for a private tour guide from our new friends Roger and D'Arcy who we met on the cruise. They found him online and had enjoyed his tour. No way in heck were we going with a group!! So, I called Giorgio on Sunday and booked 2 hours on Monday morning and 5 hours on Tuesday afternoon. We were staying at the Hotel...http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/archive/2007/12/02/sunday-cold-outside-but-loved-the-muse... Rome! Arriving into the Cold and a Wonderful Dinner- December 2, 2007 Saturday, November 17th Warning: This blog entry has no computer architecture content... feel free to skip the travelogue stories! On Saturday, November 17th, it was a travel day. We had to be off the boat by 7:15 to catch an 11:30 flight. This seemed ridiculous to us until we realized that even 30 minutes later and we would be competing with 3000 or so passengers being tossed off the ship. Wow! What a production these huge ships run. So it was...http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/archive/2007/12/02/rome-arriving-into-the-cold-and-a-wond... |