PDA

View Full Version : Article: "Flights Hit By Computer Glitch"


Kernel Sanders
August 26th, 2008, 10:04 PM
...........well, probably.

*LINK* (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/US-Flights-Grounded-Across-Eastern-Seaboard/Article/200808415087398?lpos=Home_2&lid=ARTICLE_15087398_US%2BFlights%2BGrounded%2BAcr oss%2BEastern%2BSeaboard)
cardinals_fan
August 27th, 2008, 12:46 AM
...........well, probably.

*LINK* (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/US-Flights-Grounded-Across-Eastern-Seaboard/Article/200808415087398?lpos=Home_2&lid=ARTICLE_15087398_US%2BFlights%2BGrounded%2BAcr oss%2BEastern%2BSeaboard)
What does that have to do with Vista?
LateNiteTV
August 27th, 2008, 12:48 AM
they should be looking for freebsd cds.
nick09
August 27th, 2008, 01:07 AM
They don't even tell you what OS it is. It was just a software problem not a problem with any OS.
NovaAesa
August 27th, 2008, 03:23 AM
As much as I hate to say this, it's complete and utter F.U.D. to say that this is because of Vista or Windows.
nickgaydos
August 27th, 2008, 03:24 AM
they should be looking for freebsd cds.

or Anything thats not windows!
waapwoop1
August 27th, 2008, 04:27 AM
probably linux
LaRoza
August 27th, 2008, 04:29 AM
As much as I hate to say this, it's complete and utter F.U.D. to say that this is because of Vista or Windows.

Statistically, it is likely to be Windows ;)
cardinals_fan
August 27th, 2008, 04:35 AM
Statistically, it is likely to be Windows ;)
Statistically, they are likely to USE Windows. The problem isn't necessarily with the OS *cough* user error */cough*.
chris4585
August 27th, 2008, 04:39 AM
Statistically, it is likely to be Windows ;)

Technically true, but if you do a ratio of how many people use windows compared to their IQ... and Linux users with their IQ.. well you see where I'm going with this

I'd say its about fair cause I know jack about math :lolflag:
Seti
August 27th, 2008, 05:00 AM
Have a look at the 7th post down the thread, here:

http://discussions.flightaware.com/viewtopic.php?p=59345

Looks like its probably not as simple as blaming Vista...I'm thinking the computer system used here is far older.
Newuser1111
August 27th, 2008, 05:18 AM
That thread title does not seem to match that link.
tigerplug
August 27th, 2008, 09:11 AM
Any airport jobs I applied for were with MS Windows Server 2003 and SQL server.

Its extremely unlikely this had anything to do with Vista.
Seeing as Vista is a desktop OS.
karellen
August 27th, 2008, 09:18 AM
hmm....is RAV TUX back?
Kernel Sanders
August 27th, 2008, 11:23 AM
What does that have to do with Vista?


They don't even tell you what OS it is. It was just a software problem not a problem with any OS.


As much as I hate to say this, it's complete and utter F.U.D. to say that this is because of Vista or Windows.


That thread title does not seem to match that link.

:lolflag:

I was joking guys!
beercz
August 27th, 2008, 11:57 AM
Also reported on the BBC News (http://http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7583314.stm) website yesterday. No mention of Vista, or Windows though.
Giant Speck
August 27th, 2008, 12:02 PM
You can't blame a glitch in a program on the entire operating system.

That's like saying it's the entire 5th grade class's fault that Billy failed his spelling test.
kaboodle_fish
August 27th, 2008, 12:33 PM
Not FUD...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7583805.stm

and there is a loose flying connection there as well!
bigbrovar
August 27th, 2008, 01:34 PM
kaboodle_fish
Re: Vista brings America to it's knees (Urgent search for Ubuntu CD's to fix the prob
Not FUD...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7583805.stm
i was just about posting that ... u beat me to it

and there is a loose flying connection there as well!





Computer viruses make it to orbit
Astronaut doing spacewalk, AP
The virus travelled on a laptop issued to an astronaut

A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS).

Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG.

The worm was first detected on earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.
beercz
August 27th, 2008, 02:22 PM
snip
I can feel a flame war coming on .....

*ducks*
VChief
August 27th, 2008, 02:29 PM
Actually, there's a good chance the system was Linux. The FAA began migrating to Linux a while ago (Red Hat, I believe). I can't say for sure that the flight plan system runs on Linux. The FAA has a lot of different networks and the ATC and aircraft tracking computers are the only ones I know, for sure, run on Linux (and have for several years). However, I'm guessing there's a good chance these were Linux systems.
spamzilla
August 27th, 2008, 02:34 PM
Actually, there's a good chance the system was Linux. The FAA began migrating to Linux a while ago (Red Hat, I believe). I can't say for sure that the flight plan system runs on Linux. The FAA has a lot of different networks and the ATC and aircraft tracking computers are the only ones I know, for sure, run on Linux (and have for several years). However, I'm guessing there's a good chance these were Linux systems.

:lolflag::lolflag::lolflag:
Sporkman
August 27th, 2008, 02:37 PM
This same thing happened last week while I was sitting in a plane on the tarmac in Philadelphia waiting to take off. The pilot said the computers with the flight plans crashed, & they had to re-enter flight plans manually. We eventually got off the ground after a 45 min wait or so.

Here's a short article on it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080826/ap_on_go_ot/faa_breakdown_repeat_1


FAA flight planning computers crashed last week

Tue Aug 26, 5:14 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The aviation computer problem causing flight delays around the country is similar to the outage reported by federal aviation officials less than a week ago.

The Federal Aviation Administration's Web site says the air traffic planning system suffered an outage on Thursday that delayed the departure of at least 134 flights.

The outage in the NADIN — short for National Air Space Data Interchange Network — occurred at the same Georgia facility where computers went down on Tuesday, causing delays at some three dozen major airports.

The Georgia facility is one of two NADIN locations in the United States. The other is in Salt Lake City.

When half the system is not functioning, air traffic controllers have to load flight plans manually, which causes delays.
Frak
September 28th, 2008, 12:19 AM
The system that controls the planes are all in-house. They do not use Windows, Linux, or Unix. They use their own system.
smoker
September 28th, 2008, 12:36 AM
A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS).

Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG.

The worm was first detected on earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.

hmm, that's the aliens got the heads-up! what's jeff goldblum gonna do now?
:lolflag: