From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 23 17:31:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03320 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA03315 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:31:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 22765 invoked by uid 24); 24 Jul 1998 00:30:43 -0000 Message-ID: <19980724003043.22764.qmail@hyperreal.org> X-Sender: brian@hyperreal.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:04:14 -0700 To: Greg Lehey , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brian Behlendorf Subject: Re: someone should be starting an archive of these... In-Reply-To: <19980724093021.J716@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19980722212025.20301.qmail@hyperreal.org> <19980722212025.20301.qmail@hyperreal.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:30 AM 7/24/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Wednesday, 22 July 1998 at 14:19:29 -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote: >> http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm >> >> What happens when you install an NT network on a navy ship. > >Well, the report was pretty weak. As far as I can tell, the real >problem was bad programming (somebody divided by 0 and was surprised >at the result). So was the reporter, who didn't understand the >problem (and made false claims that he could have checked up on). > >Not one against Microsoft this time. Of course it is. As the article said, a $2.95 calculator does not become inoperable when you attempt to divide a number by zero - yet a whole ship was more or less incapacitated (it had to be *towed* to port!) for days because of this. There shouldn't be *anything* that can be typed into the system that could have such an effect, intentional or not! Other than clicking on the "Shut down the ship" icon under the "Start" menu, I suppose. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- "Common sense is the collection of prejudices | brian@apache.org acquired by the age of eighteen." - Einstein | brian@hyperreal.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message