The moment I stumbled upon such stories on the web, it was a rush of contradictory thoughts that hit me instantly. For one it was awe, followed by absolute laughter at the bizarre claims being reported by affluent tabloids on this story.

Well if most of you expected simple newsjacking act here, you are in for a surprise. At E-junkie we believe in communicating rumors and actual finds that hit the tech industry, alike.

Coming to this latest claim being made by the New Scientist,  that reports this research by University College London ,well it is not the first time for someone to have discovered "this" ground breaking crash-free computer. The tall claims may have been proved theoretically but sadly never work in practice. In fact the heart of the report dwells more along a suggestive path for defence researchers and physicians.

Paul Marks from the New Scientist gives their take on this discovery. He says that "Today's computers work steadily through a list of instructions: One is fetched from the memory and executed, then the result of the computation is stashed in memory... Crashes happen when a computer mangles these kinds of linear instructions and the code doesn't quite know what to do next. Hence, the dreaded error message. The new computer works a bit differently, dividing instructions into little digital slots called "systems."

There have been instances in the tech world when things of such a nature have unfolded.

A couple of years ago, IBM and Tandem Computers brought out their versions of "crash-free" computers. The result was obvious - the idea CRASHED, period!

Interestingly, rather than contributing any positives from the technological aspect, it triggered counter coding activities by tech businesses to snub such developments. Microsoft is said to have developed a counter code to crash the IBM OS/2 systems. A small snippet in this regard has been Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's not-too-professional behavior at a COMDEX event. He is said have gone on each of these "crash free"  OS/2 machines personally with a floppy disk to test their effectiveness.

Lets take a practical view of this. Computers, even super-computers are but gadgets designed by humans. Anti-crash perfection is a utopic vision by all tech standards. At the most what's plausible is an improvement in the self-repairing abilities of the computers.

An eminent industry analyst rightly explains that "The only technology I've seen that has some aspects of self-healing, or at least self-repairing, has been the hard disk systems that constantly remap the drive when bad sectors appear".

Most of us are well versed with such self-repair mechanisms but really don't even have the patience to endure the procedure to happen. We are sadly a generation used to every thing that unfolds fast and rightly crashes fast too! To take the dig a little further, most users simply prefer to use the reset button, do a simple reboot and get going !

It seemed right that this news piece be reported. Everybody is virtually inter-connected with the web world somehow or the other. And to be a prudent judge of what is practically workable is important. To believe or not to believe is the ultimate question!

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