Ensign Kim Stapledon: Always critical section write log data in a
John Smith
Scotty: =/\= Response?
Stapledon: =/\= Well technically we could run the entire system on just the printed circuits but the air scrubbers will eventually deteriorate because transfer won't be regulated. It'd be like trying to pump your heart using an electrical oscilating circuit rather than your body's own internal bioelectrics. It sounds like it would work but in the end you end up dead.
Shimisi: =/\= Like forcing a system out of its designed specs? =/\=
Scotty: =/\= Response?
Stapledon: =/\= By the way I recommend reinitializing the quartz oscillator down here. Your automation's execution is off by a nanosecond. Not a huge deal but it could add up as periodic tasks run on the main core.
Scotty: =/\= Response?
Shimisi: =/\= Do you need me here for the moment or should I go down to get the barometers to distribute them through the ship? =/\=
Stapledon: =/\= If the node where you are is working again I'd say let's get on distributing the barometers throughout the ship.
Scotty: Response
Shimisi: =/\= Understood. =/\=
Just then something in the corner of her eye startled her. She turned to see a familiar face. T'Ama, accompanied by an officer she thought looked familiar.
Stapledon: Oh hey.
T'Ama: Response?
Stapledon: Hm that is odd. And the oscillator in the computer is off by a nanosecond too.
Kapoor: From the display I have seen on the bridge. The chronometer is not only off, the date made no sense at all. I could swear I have seen it switch back and forth between numbers and letters even, as if the computer did not remember what a date looks like.
Stapledon: That could be just a display issue to be fair. The ship's chronometer should be using milliseconds since the epoch
She stopped herself from continuing with "on this era of starship."
T'Ama: Response?
Kapoor: I don't know.. did the Captain or Commander mention what exactly happened? Maybe that would help finding out what corrupted the systems?
T'Ama: Response?
Stapledon: Shoot. I can try and call up some engineering diagnostic logs here and--
There was a series of numbers and a beeping sound as the computer tried to load the taped archive.
Computer: =/\= Corrupted File Header and allocation table.
Kapoor: Ah damn. And of course.. no access to the files because corruption, right? Figures.
T'Ama: Response?
Kapoor: So without knowing the cause, can you find the corruption source in the depths of the computer?
While OPS was in Engineering in this side, it was not in hers. She could repair a comm system but that was about it.
Stapledon: That's a good question. I can try and pull up the journal table on this file and....
A small display beside her began displaying the hexadecimal lines of file content along with their dates.
T'Ama: Response
Stapledon: Uh oh... I think that quartz oscilator problem is worse than I thought. The computer's been writing updates to the logs using two different processes.
Of course this would never happen on a modern vessel with the introduction of subspace semaphores but she kept that to herself.
T'Ama/Kapoor: Response?