Linux fails the international community!

[nemaroller]

"Computer crash hits space station"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6752459.stm

Quick, someone design a logo of a penguin falling from outer space!

[RobDog888]

Its all dependant upon the Russians and no one up there can get the systems to boot up They should have installed Windows, even Windows ME would have been better then Linux

They have something like < 52 hours of air left and 1 day of power from the space shuttle to help keep it stabilized in orbit.

[tommygrayson]

Maybe they can hit F8 and boot to safe mode.

That will load all the minimum devices including the minimum oxygen.

Or they can go to their "Open source community". If they could only have Internet.

[RobDog888]

I bet they crashed Linux by having to type everything in the command line and with their space gloves on, typed a type-o and it died

[mendhak]

Thank goodness for they have sufficient documentation... oh wait a minute.

[RobDog888]

I heard thay already have plans for abandoning the station but the officially say they are sure they can fix it. Sounds like they are in denial.

So if they abandon it because of its lack of oxygena nd course stabilizations systems then it sounds like it may fall back to earth? Skylab times 100

[Foxer]

They should detach the systems that run on Windows XP (the USA modules) and jettison the failed modules that run on Linux (Russian modules).

[RobDog888]

Seems like the Russians screwed us over. If they have to abandon the station then its worthless and after all that money that has been invested into it could have been used for better things.

[tommygrayson]

I heard thay already have plans for abandoning the station but the officially say they are sure they can fix it. Sounds like they are in denial.

So if they abandon it because of its lack of oxygena nd course stabilizations systems then it sounds like it may fall back to earth? Skylab times 100

They could drop their station to the White House. It's safe there because there are a lot of "Bushes" there.

"For Mother Russia"

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Not even Linux can survive being installed by Russians

[wossname]

The russians have said that its a power outage that caused the crash. This would have been averted if windows was in use because windows computers don't need electricity to operate.

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I've just downloaded the latest version of Fedora Core - I'll go up there and install it for them if they give me a free ride

[FunkyDexter]

"We have plenty of resources, so we have plenty of time to sort this out,"

Funny, that's the same lie I tell to my clients

[nemaroller]

The russians have said that its a power outage that caused the crash.

Yes but power has been restored and the computers are stuck in a continuous reboot cycle. If there's one thing Windows knows how to do well - its reboot and recover.

[penagate]

I must be missing something--where does it say they were running Linux?

[crptcblade]

I must be missing something--where does it say they were running Linux?

It's implied, obviously.

[wossname]

Lets all have a fight.

[timeshifter]

I vote for windows.

[RobDog888]

Windows and .NET

[nemaroller]

Dude... Get a Dell!

"He said the computers -- which were made in Germany by Daimler-Benz and were donated by the European Space Agency -- may be especially sensitive to "noise," or variations in an electric signal that can cause static. That noise, he said, may have started after the new array of solar panels was connected."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...061402099.html

[nemaroller]

I must be missing something--where does it say they were running Linux?

http://flightlinux.gsfc.nasa.gov/

[RobDog888]

Why dont they just disconnect the new solar panels and get the system back up so they can have the time to fix it correctly before reattaching the solar panels? I guess thats just too easy

[Prosun]

At least with Linux, no lady with her baby moniter will be able to take control of the ISS.

[RobDog888]

No, its because of Linux that she was able to get the station on her monitor

[Prosun]

??? If this whole thread is about how NASA uses Windows, then she obviously got that channel because of Windows!

[Prosun]

LEAP

Read the fifth paragraph, and consider why on Earth (pardon the pun) Russians might use Linux.

[RobDog888]

The ISS was using Linux but latest word is that they just finished installing Windows and have 4 of the 6 systems up and running.

[nemaroller]

"The computer system was called, at that time, the Data Management
System. So the OS was called the Data Management System Operating
System. (Really creative, right?) The DMSOS was a heavily modified
version of a COTS (Commerical Off The Shelf) UNIX system called Lynx,
as I recall. "

http://yarchive.net/space/spacecraft/iss_computers.html

Here's the European Space Agency tidbit on the Russian computer's portion of the space station that does the navigation and control for the entire station.

http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAOXX0VMOC_iss_0.html

"The DMS-R has been developed by ESA with an industrial team lead by ASTRIUM (Bremen, Germany)."

So, really, its the darn Europeans that screwed it up.

[RobDog888]

Yup, guess they no longer have "Happy Feet" anymore


Do the world a favor and shoot a penguin

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A bad workman always blames his fools.

[deathbyzen]

In Soviet Russia, the government controls the computer.

[wossname]

In Soviet Russia, nobody can afford a computer capable of running windows vista. Apart from their space agency but they had to buy the "Home" edition.

[RobDog888]

They didnt buy it. The downloaded a pirate version off the web

[tommygrayson]

They didnt buy it. The downloaded a pirate version off the web

In Soviet Russia nobody can afford DSL, only dial-up is available there.

Dial-up from space.