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Linux Hits the Road
An anonymous reader writes "Vicroads does regular surveys of the roads in Victoria, Australia, to determine where they need to be patched or otherwise repaired. It used to be done in a vehicle travelling at 20 kph: slow, tedious, and hazardous to the traffic around it. Now, thanks to Linux, it's being done at speeds of 80 to 100 kph. The Melbourne Age has the details. Short version: the cost has fallen from $1.2 million Australian to $850,000. Not bad..."
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eat me slash dot!
Never mind about Linux hitting the road for a second, I have a real question.
When are you slashdot people going to fix the single white pixel appearing at the top of the page just below the banner ad? You have in your code something buggy, because you are generating an IFRAME tag of size 1x1 that has nothing in it.
Whats worse, you have totally failed to fix this, despite it running on your PRODUCTION server for weeks now. So much for open source software being more reliable. Sheesh.
The GNAA pwnz your ASS!
Yeah, who would have thought that you could do something like this faster and cheaper with Linux. Perhaps NASA should take a lesson from Linux (e.g. it can be done faster, cheaper, and more reliably). ;)
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
No, but we will give you a script that ensures you FAIL IT every time (like the TrollKore).
All GNAA FP's are posted using manual gay nigger labor
OFF-MOTHERFUCKING-TOPIC!? When a fucking gaping bug in Slash actually cocksucking PREVENTS people from reading the on-fucking-topic comments, then I would not motherfucking consider a heads-fucking-up about the cocksucking motherfucking bug to be very much off-fucking-topic, you god damned cocksucking motherfucking asslicking moder-fucking-ators!
For added fun, if you do manage to shut it down properly before it runs out of memory, it fails to unmount the file systems so you have to fsck anyway. Windows ME was a better server than Linux.
I'd say it was good for everyone that the lecturer who happened to have the know-how to make this system was more experienced with Linux than Windows. Otherwise, they would have an expensive, buggy VB implementation, we wouldn't have another Linux success story, and every car in Austrailia would be driving over potholes that made security holes look like nothing!