How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.
Roy M. Silvernail
roy at rant-central.com
Tue Sep 28 11:37:04 PDT 2004
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 49.710269618055555555555555555556 days, or (curiously
enough) 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF) milliseconds. Known problem with Win95
('cept they call Win95 a "server").
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