[108531] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Tue Oct 7 18:19:21 2008
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@netcases.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:18:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20081007145433.D8404D96@resin18.mta.everyone.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Ah, it's a bit worse. This is the ship that ran Windows.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/USS_Yorktown_%28CG-
48%29%3B04014806.jpg/300px-USS_Yorktown_%28CG-48%29%3B04014806.jpg
You have a picture of the World War II carrier. Now, this one, the second
ship of the class, has been retired, but that's because it had old-style
missile launchers that were not cost-effective to update.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Weeks [mailto:surfer@mauigateway.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:55 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks
cybercounterattacksystem(Einstein 3.0)
-------Original Message-------
From: *Hobbit* [mailto:hobbit@avian.org]
We've got plenty of military toyz we could level at Redmond...
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----- hcb@netcases.net wrote: -----
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@netcases.net>
This one? http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/07/13987
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This:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/USS_Yorktown.jpg
was rendered unusable by a sh!++y OS? !!!
<wipes tears from eyes after rolling around on the floor in convulsive
laughter>
BWAHAHAHAHA! GREAT link! I needed to smile as I constantly go through
Micro$loth vs. *nix arguments here. :-)
"Using Microsoft's Windows NT operating system in such a critical
environment, some engineers said, was a bad move. " - The sky is blue, too.
"Technically, Windows NT Server 4.0 is no match for any Unix operating
system." - DUH!
