[rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Fri Apr 30 21:23:46 CDT 2004


On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:48:20PM -0400, ssandau at gwi.net wrote:
> The Navy has experimented with *ships* running Windows for navigation (I 
> think). Now *that's* scary. There was one example of a ship controlled 
> like that being dead in the water for hours.
> 
> Right. Can't fire misslies until we *reboot* the guidance system...

Personally, I think some general or admiral in the Pentagon is either
totally out of their fucking mind, or got a really huge pre-retirement
kickback from Microsoft.


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