Re: Can you say "World War III?"

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Can you say "World War III?"
<It's the end of the world as we know it ! :-)
< Be afraid. Be very afraid...
<[3] "Next-generation aircraft carrier to run Microsoft"

In the Y2K wars of '98, this report barely made the news.
See http://www.infowar.com/mil_c4i/mil_c4i_072898a_j.shtml
for the whole story.
Windows NT Cripples US Navy Cruiser
GOVERNMENT NEWS
GCN July 13, 1998
Software Glitches Leave Navy Smart Ship Dead In The Water
The ship had to be towed into the Naval base at Norfolk, Va.,
because a database overflow caused its propulsion system to fail...
Atlantic Fleet officials acknowledged that the Yorktown
experienced what they termed "an engineering local area network casualty,"
This is the only time this casualty has occurred and the only propulsion
casualty involved with the control system since May 2, 1997, when software
configuration was frozen," Vice Adm. Henry Giffin, commander of the
Atlantic Fleet's Naval Surface Force, reported in an Oct. 24, 1997,
memorandum.
The Yorktown lost control of its propulsion system because its computers
were
unable to divide by the number zero, the memo said. The Yorktown's Standard
Monitoring Control System administrator entered zero into the data field
for the Remote Data Base Manager program. That caused the database to
overflow and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units.
The program administrators are trained to bypass a bad data field and
change the value if such a problem occurs again, Atlantic Fleet officials
said.

Jim Franz
www.ctlaltdel.net

borrowed from haiku posted at work:

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

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