Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.
At 8:28 AM +0200 9/29/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: The mind boggles. Even more interesting: how many heads have rolled due to this? None, of course. Microsoft is the new IBM. As in, Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.
Q: How do you cause an 800-plane pile-up at a major airport? A: Replace working Unix systems with Microsoft Windows 2000! Details: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275 --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:37, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously enough) 4294967295 (0x) milliseconds. Known problem with Win95 ('cept they call Win95 a server). How the heck do they keep a Win95 machine up for 49 days? I think 1 day is a more realistic MTBF.
Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.
Sunder wrote: Q: How do you cause an 800-plane pile-up at a major airport? A: Replace working Unix systems with Microsoft Windows 2000! Details: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275 Got to love the spin... The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously enough) 4294967295 (0x) milliseconds. Known problem with Win95 ('cept they call Win95 a server). -- Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not It's just this little chromium switch, here. - TFS SpamAssassin-procmail-/dev/null-bliss http://www.rant-central.com