How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.

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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