[108529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cybercounterattack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Oct 7 18:00:14 2008
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:54:33 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:00:08 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:54:33 PDT, Scott Weeks said:
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/USS_Yorktown.jpg
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> was rendered unusable by a sh!++y OS? !!!
To be fair, designing a system that could be dead in the water if one component
bluescreened probably wasn't a wise idea either, and one totally separate from
the actual choice of operating system. Even Solaris and AIX crash if
sufficiently provoked. But it's no surprise that the same designers who
created it with a single point of failure then turned around and implemented
the critical component with likely-to-fail thechnology.
"Windows NT 4.0 - the choice of unclued systems designers everywhere" :)
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