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This very much depends on the power output of your mobile phone. For instance, a pair of mobiles each with 2 Watts of transmitter output will take three minutes to boil a large free range egg. Wymsey Weekend: A Guide to Mobile Cooking

Oh. My. God. I’ll never put a phone up to my head again.

The first version of IBM’s flagship DS8000 storage array, shipping since March, contains a bug that automatically shuts down the entire system without warning every 49 days, users in Europe and North America report.

IBM informed iT Austria of the problem on May 27 and by May 30 the firm had received microcode revision 6.0.0.388 to fix the problem. Unfortunately the repair was a disruptive upgrade. Another outage, this time for 22 hours, occurred when iT Austria needed to add a second frame to the DS8000 to expand its capacity. Several microcode versions later iT Austria is crossing its fingers that the system stays up and running.

As a storage professional, my only response to IBM is Oh. My. God.

It’s easy to search for the missing component in your storage network with Storage Scope with a little up-front planning. Create a report that contains the values you’d like returned from your search and the field you’d like to search. If for instance, you’re trying to figure out where a particular WWPN is plugged in, name the report “Search by WWPN.” Be sure to hit Next while creating the report until you get to the Filters configuration page. Select the field you’d like to search, the method of search (ie: contains ignore case) and put a search term in the last field. You can create very complex searches if you pay attention to this page. Save and Open the report.

Only the data that matches your search string will be returned. Now, whenever you want to search for a piece of a WWPN from the oft-forgotten server, just open this report. At the top of the report screen, there’s a drop-down list containing other reports, and options for this one. Select Edit Filters from the drop-down list. Change the text of the search to be the last 6 digits or so of the WWPN, and you’ll receive only a few matches (if any). Return to this report again and again whenever you need to find components by WWPN. Other suggestions are “Search by Name,” “Search by Zone,” “Search by Volume Group.”