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Virus Shuts Down Australian Ambulance Dispatch Service

Posted by timothy on from the severe-spankings-called-for-in-certain-basements dept.

angry tapir writes "Computers which co-ordinate ambulances in NSW, Australia, are back online in three of the state's regions after a major virus forced staff to shut them down for more than 24 hours. The virus crept into the Ambulance Service of NSW's dispatch system, prompting staff to co-ordinate paramedics by telephone and handwritten notes. The cause and source of the virus are not yet known."

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  1. Re:I know what caused it by headhot · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yea, and at-least 2 of them were shutdown by windows crashes and were dead in the water, need a tow all the way back to port. The smart ship program started with an unix bases system until MS hired a retired admiral to loby for it.

  2. Re:If.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windows is such crapware, as so many of you think, why don't you guys all get together and write an emergency management system that runs on a Linux distro? Now I obviously don't know for sure, but it seems likely the reason they are using Windows is that their application is written that way. Take a way the need to use Windows before bitching and moaning about them using Windows.

    Presentation at this week's North Carolina GIS Conference

    Open Source Computer-Aided-Dispatch – GIS at
    Work in Emergency Response,” Arnie Shore,
    Anne Arundel Co, MD

    Looks like Arnie will be talking about this:

    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.opensource/browse_thread/thread/29ba12a929bd7bd3?pli=1