10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
2:43 p.m.
On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:36 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
If "showing a failure of Windows" means "biased", yes.
The US Navy at
one point was switching from Unix to Windows. They
had major
problems with this on the USS Yorktown, and had to tow it back to
port. I
don't know whether they've completed the switch.
That wiki entry seems a little biased, doesn't it? ALL ships in the US Navy have an incredible amount of
redundancy, and
there are always ways to go two or three technology generations back
to get things back up in running. The idea that somehow this network
was such a single point of failure to the point that the ship was dead
in the water just STINKS of being urban legend.
I saw it on CNN when it happened.
Did something fail?
Sure - this was a test bed, and these things are supposed to fail. And
when they fail, the engineers scour over the results and do not get
into emergency mode. It already seems like the whole towing claim is
dubious at best. A
Sorry, it happened. Unless the whole thing was a hoax, complete
with pictures.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL