2nd Group-meeting

22/12/2006
Venue: COIT

-In the second meeting, we validate and submitted the url and group members of our blog to Mrs. Badariah, our software engineering lecture.

1st Group-meeting

20/12/2006
Venue: COIT

-The first group meeting was to discuss about our first assignment in SE, which is to create a blog.
- In our meeting agenda, we discuss about choosing the blog host, the name of the blog, URL, page elements, contents and other additional features.
- As the result, we had chosen blogger.com to be the blog host and www.ink2u.blogspot.com as our url.
- From this task also we start to add blog post and learn something about the blog itself from this assignment.

5 Important Things wee need to do before headin' to madam's class

There are 5 important things we need to do, before headin' to Madam Badariah's class

• make sure you had your breakfast.
• understand all previous chapters
• make sure u brought along some sweets(if possible bring some Karipap so that that u can share with your friends)
• Your notes. (make sure u bring all chapter, In case madam would ask a question which may came from previous chapter)
• Make sure that you are ready to be asked by madam. (Famous word that will come out from madam's mouth, QUESTION???)
  

Waterfall Model

-Works for well understood problems with minimal/ no changes in the requirements.

-Simple and easy to explain to customers.

- It presents a very high-level view of the development process.

-Each major phase is marked by milestones

Ariane 5 Inquiry Board Report

Some excerpt from the report for Ariane 5 failure;

3.2 CAUSE OF THE FAILURE
The failure of the Ariane 501 was caused by the complete loss of guidance and attitude information 37 seconds after start of the main engine ignition sequence (30 seconds after lift- off). This loss of information was due to specification and design errors in the software of the inertial reference system.
The extensive reviews and tests carried out during the Ariane 5 Development Programme did not include adequate analysis and testing of the inertial reference system or of the complete flight control system, which could have detected the potential failure.

In details the full report by the Inquiry Board;

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/perdita/Book/ariane5rep.html

Ariane 5 Flight 501 Failure

Flight 501, which took place on June 4, 1996, was the first test flight of the Ariane 5 expendable launch system. It was not successful. Due to a malfunction in the control software the rocket veered off its flight path 37 seconds after launch. It was torn apart by high aerodynamic forces which caused the onboard computer to trigger self-destruction.
The breakup caused the loss of the payload: four Cluster mission spacecraft, resulting in a loss of more than $ 370 million.
It is one of the most famous computer bugs in history.

The Ariane 5 software reused the specifications from the Ariane 4, but the Ariane 5's flight path was considerably different and beyond the range for which the reused code had been designed. Specifically, the Ariane 5's greater acceleration caused the back-up and primary inertial guidance computers to crash, after which the launcher's nozzles were directed by spurious data. Pre-flight tests had never been performed on the re-alignment code under simulated Ariane 5 flight conditions, so the error was not discovered before launch.

'WoW' Windows Vista

Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest OS was officially launch in KL Convention Centre for preview to the business and corporate leaders yesterday (which is Saturday Feb 3) and for public release and viewing in Low Yat Plaza starting today. (Let's go!)

Windows Vista, along side with Microsoft Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 promises a core platform which enables business to reap the benefits of Internet-based software that offer balance of control, convenience, increase productivity and of course greater security and entertainment.

Windows Vista ships in six editions. All editions except Windows Vista Starter support both x32 and x64 processor.

Now, it makes our XP looks obsolete. ^^..