Last spring I was able to use this setup at the news paper I was working for. They were part of a free beta test of the hardware and it worked perfectly, we had no problems at all with the reliability of service. But I'd like to see what happens when hacker meets ham radio operator.
Avionics are a quite a ways off from what Linux or any other desktop OS can provide because they are so specialized. I'm sure most military systems have multiple redundancy flight systems.
Where Linux or any other OS comes into play is battle planning/communication where the multiple talents of a desktop system can be utilized. In that case the ultimate redundancy is the humans operating the system. They check the data which is in turn handed up to the commanding officer to check. If there is ever any discrepancies they are found and corrected.
Ultimately, on more advanced weapon systems a computer is responsible for guidance. The guidance systems are also highly specialized and would not use a desktop OS either.
I agree with you, the ethics of the technology should be involved. The disscussion of whether or not the military itself is ethical/justifiable/necessary should not be involved as that has nothing to do with the technology.
As a member of the military I happen to know that some of the systems that are used on the battlefield (and I mean that literally) run on unix. I think it would be easy for the military to use linux in place of those systems, however as far as what kind of modifications that would take and how the GPL would affect them I wouldn't know. I don't know for sure that the government is restricted by copyrights much less copyleft.
In response to the conflict of interest post: please do not bring your personal beliefs into a discussion of technology, I would like to debate your points but as this is not a thread about military ethics I won't.
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Last spring I was able to use this setup at the news paper I was working for. They were part of a free beta test of the hardware and it worked perfectly, we had no problems at all with the reliability of service. But I'd like to see what happens when hacker meets ham radio operator.
Avionics are a quite a ways off from what Linux or any other desktop OS can provide because they are so specialized. I'm sure most military systems have multiple redundancy flight systems.
Where Linux or any other OS comes into play is battle planning/communication where the multiple talents of a desktop system can be utilized. In that case the ultimate redundancy is the humans operating the system. They check the data which is in turn handed up to the commanding officer to check. If there is ever any discrepancies they are found and corrected.
Ultimately, on more advanced weapon systems a computer is responsible for guidance. The guidance systems are also highly specialized and would not use a desktop OS either.
I agree with you, the ethics of the technology should be involved. The disscussion of whether or not the military itself is ethical/justifiable/necessary should not be involved as that has nothing to do with the technology.
As a member of the military I happen to know that some of the systems that are used on the battlefield (and I mean that literally) run on unix. I think it would be easy for the military to use linux in place of those systems, however as far as what kind of modifications that would take and how the GPL would affect them I wouldn't know. I don't know for sure that the government is restricted by copyrights much less copyleft.
In response to the conflict of interest post: please do not bring your personal beliefs into a discussion of technology, I would like to debate your points but as this is not a thread about military ethics I won't.
using the Server HTTP header you get
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
although it is interesting that the server behaves like linux OS, unless MS decided to port IIS to linux.
Any body getting this?
Logon failure: user not allowed to log on to this computer.
Is the site already fubar?