[ale] newest Navy Destroyer runs Linux

[Scott Castaline]

Hmm, reminds me of a little humorous sound effect in Star Trek: In 
Search Of Spock when Kirk and skeleton crew make off with the Enterprise 
and Scotty had broken the engines in the new star ship that was being 
used to give chase. Sounded like an old Model T backfiring and then dying.

On 11/01/2013 09:10 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> USS Yorktown, Windows NT, September 1997.  A coding error in the RDBMS 
> combined with a zero entered in the wrong field disables the ship's 
> engines off the Virginia coast. Wikipedia has details ( 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_%28CG-48%29 ) under "Smart 
> Ship Testbed".
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com 
> <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     "Captain Kirk to the bridge!" For real on this wessel, not just
>     scripted lines.
>
>
>     On 10/31/2013 04:15 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>
>         On 10/31/2013 04:06 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
>
>             And the captain name of the ship is Captain Kirk
>
>
>         I don't know how I missed bringing up that point?
>
>
>
>             On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Damon L. Chesser
>             <damon at damtek.com <mailto:damon at damtek.com>> wrote:
>
>                 <tongue-in-cheek/>This is wrong. Just wrong.  someone
>                 designed an entire
>                 ship off of "off the shelf hardware" and Linux. Is
>                 there a sudden outbreak
>                 of common sense in the US Military?</tongue-in-cheek>
>
>                 http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-navys-newest-warship-is-powered-by-linux/
>
>
>                 Pretty cool stuff, if the design works.
>
>                 -- 
>                 Damon L. Chesser
>                 damon at damtek.com <mailto:damon at damtek.com>
>                 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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