Whether or not NT was responsible for this particular glitch, according the above article, the engineers involved were not too impressed with NT {emphasis added}:
But according to DiGiorgio [a civilian engineer with the Atlantic Fleet Technical Support Center in Norfolk], who in an interview said he has serviced automated control systems on Navy ships for the past 26 years, the NT operating system is the source of the Yorktown's computer problems.
NT applications aboard the Yorktown provide damage control, run the ship's control center on the bridge, monitor the engines and navigate the ship when under way.
"Using Windows NT, which is known to have some failure modes, on a warship is similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor," DiGiorgio said.
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Ron Redman, deputy technical director of the Fleet Introduction Division of the Aegis Program Executive Office, said there have been numerous software failures associated with NT aboard the Yorktown.
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The Yorktown has been towed into port several times because of the systems failures, he said.
"Because of politics, some things are being forced on us that without political pressure we might not do, like Windows NT," Redman said. "If it were up to me I probably would not have used Windows NT in this particular application. If we used Unix, we would have a system that has less of a tendency to go down."
Oh, yes. Personally, I'm am very glad our military has placed its faith (and the lives of our mariners) in such reliable technology.
I though(t) it was only highest proportion out of supposedly "free" countries. If it's the highest proportion of any country that looks very much worst.
Yes, I believe it is higher than all the of the countries that don't even pretend to be free, even China & (formerly) the Soviet Union.
FWIU, in Europe (among other places), most countries have some form of socialist democracy, where the state takes care of many people who need help (and others who don't, of course). Here, you only get full medical, housing, and food benefits from the state if you are in prison.
But the good thing is, the application process for admission is very easy.
The US police has a sexual fixation on arresting people. I don't think there is any other country in the world where the police arrest as menay people as in the US for the most ridicoulus reasons. It's liek I sometimes are convinced that the get a bonus for arresting the most every week or so!
Yesterday, I received this scam e-mail from "service@paypal.com" The sending IP was an AOL address: ACC1D4A2.ipt.aol.com [172.193.212.162]
The "click here" links, which I've broken for obvious reasons in the email below, led to this URL: http://www.paypal.com@%77%77%77.%61%7A.%72%7 5/%70% 70%64
Which, unencoded, is: http://www.paypal.com@http://www.az.ru/ppd/ And sure enough, it is an (insecure) page on www.az.ru asking you to enter your PayPal email address and password to "confirm" your account. If this is an old scam (this particular one; I was spoofing login screens on my college network in the 80s!), I haven't heard about it.
Here's the e-mail: ----------------------
Dear PayPal Customer,
This e-mail is to inform you of a recent update we have made to our systems. To avoid service interruption we require that you confirm your account as soon as possible. Please click here and take a moment to confirm your account.
Please follow the following steps:
1.) Click here to confirm your account. 2.) Your account will be updated in our system and you may continue using PayPal services without any interruptions.
Please note: If you fail to update your account, it will be 'flagged' with restricted status.
Thank you, The Paypal Staff
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Jason Earl said... RedHat can't distribute MP3 codecs without paying royalties, and so they don't distribute the libraries that XMMS uses to decode MP3s.
Err, umm.... well, xmms.org says: To clarify, since the beginning of our mp3 licensing program in 1995, Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed software decoders. For commercially sold decoders - primarily hardware mp3 players - the per-unit royalty has always been in place since the beginning of the program.
So all this about RedHat not being able to distribute MP3 codecs without paying royalties actually appears to be, as we say, a bunch of FUD. Maybe they have different reasons, but it's not about royalties.
Re:A fertile mule does not mean a fertile mind.
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...and please excuse my assumption regarding "mister"
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Please uncover your sense of humor, mister....and while you're at it, try to discover a sense of the subtle.
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Heh, I don't have a problem with story submitters making the occasional (or, in your case, consistent?:P) typo, but I wish the "editors" would catch them. IAC, I found yours amusing, and I thank you for the laugh.
No-one has opened many of the drawers of the furniture here since they were last shut
Fascinating! Except for the ones I left open, no one has opened the drawers of my furniture since they were last shut, either. Does that make my home a historical site?
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Sheesh, my point was to make a freakin' joke!
I find the science fascinating. Likewise, people's inability to use the English language.
In this case my knowledge of the language is better than my knowledge of the science, so I left the intelligent scientific observations to people such as yourself.
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I understand that. But how does this make thumbing one's nose a science?
"Personally, I almost solely use the keyboard as input device"
Even for web surfing??
Errrr, what's so astonishing about almost soley using a keyboard for web surfing? I rarely use the mouse for anything except clicking links, though with Opera you can do nearly everything with the keyboard (including selecting text and links), it is very keyboard-friendly.
Well, as with many useful things, meta refresh can be abused.
My most recent use for itis with my webcam. But in my effort not to be evil, if the image hasn't changed in an hour I remove the meta tag from the page (it's a PHP page so it's "smart"). No sense in filling up my server log when people leave the page open.
Evil? I don't think so.
And when I was working for a computer store in Italy (run by Scientologists), I used meta redirect tag to refer users from some site of theirs to the main Italian Scientology site.
Today on Fritz's Hit List: Big Mouth Billy Bass.
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That's right, your favorite wall-hanging, singing, dancing, animatronic fish qualifies for regulation as a "digital media device" under the Hollings CBDTPA. If the CBDTPA passes, any new Billy Bass will have to incorporate government-approved copy protection technology.
Well this just goes to prove that there's a bright side to every dark law.
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Oh goody, soon I'll be able to have a wank with all my old 80's ASCII pr0n!
Er, except back then it was called "porn", not like this modern "pr0n" crap.
How soon before that system is cracked and you're walking down the street with a picture of a guy f%^king a chicken on your back?
LOL, it would certainly have to be a multithreaded attack.
=groan=
please mod this down, it's embarrassing
Oh, yes. Personally, I'm am very glad our military has placed its faith (and the lives of our mariners) in such reliable technology.
Never mind XFT. WTF!?
You have Trillian running in linux?
Don't tell me you've soaked it in wine...
I though(t) it was only highest proportion out of supposedly "free" countries. If it's the highest proportion of any country that looks very much worst.
Yes, I believe it is higher than all the of the countries that don't even pretend to be free, even China & (formerly) the Soviet Union.
FWIU, in Europe (among other places), most countries have some form of socialist democracy, where the state takes care of many people who need help (and others who don't, of course). Here, you only get full medical, housing, and food benefits from the state if you are in prison.
But the good thing is, the application process for admission is very easy.
Oh, how I love this country.
You just don't get it, do you? ;-P
Seriously, try "read leaflet"
This is Adventure. don't expect every correct answer to be right =)
To s/he who moderated "You are in a maze of littletwisty passages, all alike" as offtopic, it is NOT offtopic, you buffoon! Were you born yesterday?
Zork? Zork is a poor imitation of Adventure 666.
xyzzx pftthhhbbbt!
would someone please flush the mail queue?
oh no, the logs are getting backed up!
The US police has a sexual fixation on arresting people. I don't think there is any other country in the world where the police arrest as menay people as in the US for the most ridicoulus reasons. It's liek I sometimes are convinced that the get a bonus for arresting the most every week or so!
You have a very good point. Here in America ("The Land of the Free") we do have a higher percentage of the population incarcerated than in any other country in the world.
Don't take the freedoms in your country for granted. We did here in the US, and look what happened to us!
Yesterday, I received this scam e-mail from "service@paypal.com"
7 5/%70% 70%64
The sending IP was an AOL address: ACC1D4A2.ipt.aol.com [172.193.212.162]
The "click here" links, which I've broken for obvious reasons in the email below, led to this URL:
http://www.paypal.com@%77%77%77.%61%7A.%72%
Which, unencoded, is:
http://www.paypal.com@http://www.az.ru/ppd/
And sure enough, it is an (insecure) page on www.az.ru asking you to enter your PayPal email address and password to "confirm" your account. If this is an old scam (this particular one; I was spoofing login screens on my college network in the 80s!), I haven't heard about it.
Here's the e-mail:
----------------------
Dear PayPal Customer,
This e-mail is to inform you of a recent update we have made to our systems. To avoid service interruption we require that you confirm your account as soon as possible. Please click here and take a moment to confirm your account.
Please follow the following steps:
1.) Click here to confirm your account.
2.) Your account will be updated in our system and you may continue using PayPal services without any interruptions.
Please note: If you fail to update your account, it will be 'flagged' with restricted status.
Thank you,
The Paypal Staff
***
Do not reply to this e-mail. For assistance, contact the customer service team.
***
Hmmm, yes. Point well taken.
Jason Earl said...
RedHat can't distribute MP3 codecs without paying royalties, and so they don't distribute the libraries that XMMS uses to decode MP3s.
Err, umm.... well, xmms.org says:
To clarify, since the beginning of our mp3 licensing program in 1995, Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed software decoders. For commercially sold decoders - primarily hardware mp3 players - the per-unit royalty has always been in place since the beginning of the program.
So all this about RedHat not being able to distribute MP3 codecs without paying royalties actually appears to be, as we say, a bunch of FUD. Maybe they have different reasons, but it's not about royalties.
...and please excuse my assumption regarding "mister"
Please uncover your sense of humor, mister. ...and while you're at it, try to discover a sense of the subtle.
Heh, I don't have a problem with story submitters making the occasional (or, in your case, consistent? :P) typo, but I wish the "editors" would catch them. IAC, I found yours amusing, and I thank you for the laugh.
shaunj wrote:
The two companies may be find (sic) as much as $11,000 for each violation
after which HughsOnFirst asked:
Do they really plan on collecting $22,000,000,000 ?
Seriously, I doubt they'll ever "find" that much to collect from the fuckers' bank accounts...
No-one has opened many of the drawers of the furniture here since they were last shut
Fascinating! Except for the ones I left open, no one has opened the drawers of my furniture since they were last shut, either. Does that make my home a historical site?
Sheesh, my point was to make a freakin' joke!
I find the science fascinating. Likewise, people's inability to use the English language.
In this case my knowledge of the language is better than my knowledge of the science, so I left the intelligent scientific observations to people such as yourself.
I understand that.
But how does this make thumbing one's nose a science?
sheesh...
"Personally, I almost solely use the keyboard as input device"
Even for web surfing??
Errrr, what's so astonishing about almost soley using a keyboard for web surfing? I rarely use the mouse for anything except clicking links, though with Opera you can do nearly everything with the keyboard (including selecting text and links), it is very keyboard-friendly.
I use gestures just fine in Opera with my track ball.
Especially the best ones: right-left click (back in history), left-right click (forward in history)
But the other ones (close window, etc.) also work, sometimes I have to repeat once or twice, though I think "Ctrl-W" is the best gesture for that.
Thumbing it's nose as science...
Sheesh, the things they're calling "science" these days!
Well, as with many useful things, meta refresh can be abused.
My most recent use for itis with my webcam. But in my effort not to be evil, if the image hasn't changed in an hour I remove the meta tag from the page (it's a PHP page so it's "smart"). No sense in filling up my server log when people leave the page open.
Evil? I don't think so.
And when I was working for a computer store in Italy (run by Scientologists), I used meta redirect tag to refer users from some site of theirs to the main Italian Scientology site.
Evil? Definitely! Sorry, world.
www.xenu.net: learn the truth about Scientology.
Er, um, I use them for redirects/page refreshes
That's right, your favorite wall-hanging, singing, dancing, animatronic fish qualifies for regulation as a "digital media device" under the Hollings CBDTPA. If the CBDTPA passes, any new Billy Bass will have to incorporate government-approved copy protection technology.
Well this just goes to prove that there's a bright side to every dark law.
Errr, please laugh in the appropriate places ;)