After 49.7 days of use, I'd have to get restarted, too

alternateorg on September 22, 2004

Southern California’s Air Trafic Control system had a glitch in it that stranded 800 planes in the air without contact to Air Traffic Control. Did I mention the system is based on Windows?
The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. To avoid this automatic shutdown, technicians are required to restart the system manually every 30 days. An improperly trained employee failed to reset the system, leading it to shut down without warning, the official said. Backup systems failed because of a software failure, according to a report in The New York Times.
Awesome. Why do people use Windows again?

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7 Replies to “After 49.7 days of use, I'd have to get restarted, too”

  1. tai September 22, 2004 at 1:16 pm

    lovely. my safety in Microsoft’s incompetent hands…

  2. pil September 23, 2004 at 5:10 am

    I think my VW ran windows…

  3. Kyle September 23, 2004 at 3:31 pm

    I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at Phil’s comment. In a public place (Coffee shop) at that.

  4. tai September 23, 2004 at 4:47 pm

    The 7 series bmw’s with iDrive run winCE on a PPC. They have had security and bug fix releases. LOL, so pathetic, buy a 80k car only to have to bring it in for windows patches…

  5. Kyle September 28, 2004 at 10:13 pm

    My Professor’s Powebook had to be restarted today, and he was only using Safari.

  6. say September 29, 2004 at 10:39 pm

    I am a complete idiot and have nothing to add to this conversation. Please ignore me.

  7. tai October 2, 2004 at 3:53 pm

    whats so funny about implementing an FAA solution based on BSD Unix (the most stable/secure unix around) …? because thats all a mac is these days. 😉

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