Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Computer, heal thyself (12 Jul 2004) 'Today's systems have too many dials to watch; people can spend their whole lives figuring out how to make a database run well," White says. "We want to stand this notion of systems management on its head. The system has to be able to set itself up. It has to optimize itself. It has to repair itself, and if something goes wrong, it has to know how to respond to external threats. If I can think about the system at that level, I'm using humans for what they're good at, and I'm using the machines for what they're good at. That's the idea here.' Article URL: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/07/12/self_healing_computing/ Read 54 more articles from Salon sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The Fight of Challenge vs. Usability in Games     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy