10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
3:18 p.m.
On Jun 10, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Jun 10, 2009, at 6:03 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Likely not as much as you do, but I worked in weapons and
countermeasures design for a few years. I'm not without exposure to
the defense industry.
I've never seen an explanation of what the failure actually was, just
lots of articles stating that Windows NT was being used as the OS and -
something- went wrong. It could just as easily have been buggy client
software that crashed.
The Wired article I read says "They [naval engineers] rushed this
stuff on the ship, there was no real prototype and then they tried to
make things work as they went along...". I will let you draw your
conclusions from that.
Oh. It also says "the source of the problem was bad data fed to an
APPLICATION running..." which caused whatever ad-hoc network they were
running to crash... Whether this was an NT bug or not is
indeterminate... No further details are available.
Sorry, it
happened. Unless the whole thing was a hoax, complete
with
pictures.
Do you know *anything* about Naval ships and machinery? Forget it. I give up. I am wasting my time.
Apparently. Go look up the news archives for the Yorktown story.
Read the facts before you make assumptions and accuse people of not
knowing what they're talking about just because you don't like what
they're saying.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL