In accordance with the present disclosure a portable computing device may capture an image of a physical bar code, which may exist on some physical medium, such as paper, plastic, glass, etc. According to one technique, a master node is appointed in a cluster. The fork sections are angled relative to the cutter section, i. The sensors and the signal transmitter can be moved in relation to one another by the gearshift lever, and electric signals characterizing the particular shift position are sent by the sensors at least indirectly to an evaluating device by which the transmission can be put into different operating states as a function of the electric signals. , in order to avoid crystallization of the aqueousliquid components of the coconut milk. The controller also creates, in a first disk, a logical memory area for storing a backup directory that has been stored in the first disk and that corresponds to a primary directory stored in a second disk of a processing element in which a failure has occurred.