Updating GE's Äkta Avant to Windows 10
By jeltsch on Tue, 02/18/2020 - 17:24
After updating to Windows 10, our Äkta Avant started to crash in the middle of protein purifications...
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The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed...
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Computer time: Windows against the rest of the world
By jeltsch on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 05:54I am not sure, but Windows seems to be the only operating system, that wants the computer clock to be set to the local time zone instead of universal standard time (UTC). Maybe that is a relic of the times when Microsoft thought that the internet was not very important for the future of computing. All other operating systems apparently use UTC: MacOS, Android, Linux, BSD, ... However, if you are dual-booting your computer, you can get into trouble. Not all operating systems detect automatically a dual boot install and adjust their behaviour in order to be compatible with Windows.
1000 times too slow
By jeltsch on Thu, 12/01/2016 - 12:45
Helsinki University has outsourced parts of its IT infrastructure to Microsoft. Even if outsourcing is cheaper in the short term than generating equivalent services locally, the net effect is likely negative due to the lost jobs, know how and independence. It doesn’t need a conspiracy to explain this self-destructive behavior, just bad decision criteria, which do not include long term and externalized costs.
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