[BLU/Officers] Jan meeting still needs speaker

[Jerry Feldman]

When I worked for Raytheon, we had a similar situation. We software guys
would bitch all the time that the hardware guys always want the software
guys to fix their problems, but...
At Raytheon, we could send out a CE to fix the problem, but considering the
millions of CPU chips out there, the cost and logistics of deploying the
fix in hardware is pretty high. In software, we can identify an anomaly,
apply and test a fix in a short time, and the deployment is over the
network. But in many cases, today, like at Google, it is deploying many new
servers.

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:00 AM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> Shankar is now booked for January. He'll be discussing the recently
> discovered Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:26 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I got in touch wih Jonathan McDowell who works at the Smithsonian in
>> Cambridge. He has 2 talks:
>> 'The Invisible Universe
>> from the Chandra X-ray Space Telescope'
>> and
>>   'CIAO - 20 years of a Unix command line based data analysis
>> system for X-ray astronomy'
>>
>> He is available for March or April, but not January or February.
>>
>> I prefer 'The Invisible Universe...'
>>
>> I tried calling JABR but I have not heard from him.
>>
>> Also I am planning on going to Steve Morth's memorial at the Village
>> Smokehouse in Brookline Village on Saturday. (It is now called Magnolia
>> Smokehouse).
>>
>> Any ideas for this month.
>>
>>
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>> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
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