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'Blue Screen of Death' on Oil Rig's Computer ( Deepwater Horizon Oilspill )
HardOCP ^
| Saturday July 24, 2010
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Posted on 07/24/2010 10:30:38 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Bryanw92
OK thanks.
I am a Noob in that area.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
So Bill Gates really is the root of all evil?
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posted on
07/24/2010 1:47:24 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I aspire to a large carbon footprint; just like Al Gore's)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I’ve been programming and designing industrial controls for 25 years. The way most FReepers are latching on to this “Windows blew up the oil rig” story is ridiculous. Sure, Windows has problems, but they have to realize that the people that design this equipment don’t want to see ships explode and people die, so we tend to be over-conservative when we design control systems.
From time to time, a bean-counter will look at the quote for hardware and go to Google and find some $500 “solution” that does “everything that the $20,000 system does”. That’s when I use the scenario described in the original post to make him realize that he doesn’t want some Windows PC directly controlling his machinery.
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posted on
07/24/2010 1:54:00 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Obama is like a rocket scientist....who's trying to do brain surgery with a hammer.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Looks like they upgraded the software on this ROV. Now has quad cams !
Live feeds from Oly ROV 2
Also, the vertical water movements are are getting very strong.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
07/24/2010 1:56:20 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
07/24/2010 2:00:10 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: RachelFaith
the memory addressing systems just append code for each level of the improved design, each time, each upgrade, layer upon layer, call after call, until the OS cannot even keep track of where what process began or where the return calls need to go... then the whole house of cards comes down.... BSOD! Good grief, it sounds like NOMAD from Star Trek ... error ... errrrroor.
To: for-q-clinton; driftdiver
Just-to-tweak-your-noses-in-a-good-natured-way-because-this-is-really-just-OBAMA'S-FAULT-anyway *PING*.
Cheers!
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posted on
07/24/2010 2:13:39 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: justa-hairyape
Looks like the new quad display actually displays the two cameras on Oly2 in the top row. The two cameras of Oly1 in the bottom row. So each ROV has two cams. At any rate, the situation down at the Macondo is FUBAR.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If you need a damn computer to tell you what to do when there is water and mud flowing over the rotary table you don’t need to be on the rig.
Geeesh, a damn computer glitch nor a gas alarm was the cause of the blowout. Stupidity and negligence are.
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posted on
07/24/2010 3:35:38 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Half of the population is below average)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I would be running EITHER Red Hat Linux OR a hardened version of BSD Unix.
Lock down the OS from ANY change after extensive testing with the application suite.
Never update. Never patch. Never connect to the standard administrative network.
Anyone in this business worth their salt KNOWS the Process Control networks are teat very, very differently than administrative networks. It's a completely different ball-game.
That anyone would run NT as a process control OS shows amateur ignorance and/or criminal negligence.
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posted on
07/24/2010 3:48:37 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Total negligence. No other way to look at it.
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posted on
07/24/2010 4:28:53 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned....)
To: central_va
I saw plenty of those on one computer here at home for few months. It’s stopped of late, though I’ve not really done anything to the computer.
To: worst-case scenario
Don’t forget the open fire doors on the generator room.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
HardOCP writes:
The largest oil spill in American history may be due to a simple computer glitch. Williams, when I watched him testify, said this event was not caused by the freezes.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: thecodont
no ... it was management’s “faster, cheaper, better” philosophy ... /sarcasm-off
To: justa-hairyape
Quad Cams....wow... going modern on us.
To: JRios1968
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
So BP was negligent in not having a fail-over system?
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posted on
07/24/2010 8:09:17 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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