tlug: NT joke

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

This is a clip from Skinny Dubaud's rumor column on news.com:


                      It all started when a Navy missile cruiser,
                      while doing routine maneuvers last September,
                      suffered a series of software glitches that
                      stalled the ship outside Cape Charles, Virginia,
                      according to Government Computer News. The
                      USS Yorktown--which the Navy deems a
                      "smart ship" because it uses software to
                      automate tasks and reduce manpower on the
                      vessel--was stranded outside the harbor for 2
                      hours and 45 minutes, GCN quoted officials
                      from the Atlantic fleet as saying. 

                      The cause of the failure? Many engineers and
                      technicians blamed the NT operating system.
                      Supposedly, the ship lost control of its
                      propulsion mechanism because local access
                      network consoles and remote terminal units
                      had crashed due to a computer calculation bug.
                      Many claim it wouldn't have happened with
                      Unix. 

Read the whole thing at:
http://www.news.com/Rumors/0,29,,00.html?st.ne.rum.idx.gif.a

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>
3Web Channel <URL: http://www.3web.co.jp/>

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