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Mars Probe Has Software Glitch
http://news4colorado.com/nationworld/topstories_story_023135646.html ^

Posted on 01/23/2004 11:59:03 AM PST by Bush Cheney

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1 posted on 01/23/2004 11:59:03 AM PST by Bush Cheney
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To: Bush Cheney
Damn programmers.
2 posted on 01/23/2004 11:59:34 AM PST by Glenn (MS:Where do you want to go today? OSX:Where do you want to go tomorrow?Linux:Are you coming or what?)
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3 posted on 01/23/2004 12:00:16 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Bush Cheney
I told 'em not to use Windows 98...
4 posted on 01/23/2004 12:01:12 PM PST by cibco (Xin Loi... Saddam)
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To: Bush Cheney
Hey! I'll volunteer to fix it at my usual rate of $ 65/hour plus expenses...
5 posted on 01/23/2004 12:01:33 PM PST by pabianice
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To: Bush Cheney
I knew we could blame it on Bill Gates. Any minute the Mac crowd will show up and swear this never would have happened with Mac OS.
6 posted on 01/23/2004 12:01:54 PM PST by CholeraJoe (Currahee! 3 miles up, 3 miles down. Hi Yo, Silver!)
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To: Glenn
It would only make sense Opportunity has the same exact code .... lets hope they can come up with a fix before that one starts rolling.
7 posted on 01/23/2004 12:02:07 PM PST by Bush Cheney
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To: Glenn
They don;t think it is software now.
8 posted on 01/23/2004 12:02:15 PM PST by CasearianDaoist
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9 posted on 01/23/2004 12:02:30 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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Hey! I'll volunteer to fix it at my usual rate of $ 65/hour plus expenses...

A tidy sum, if you include the $0.42 milage to get to the jobsite...

10 posted on 01/23/2004 12:04:21 PM PST by 50sDad (Hey Vegans! More people were killed this year by dirty onions than by Mad Cows!)
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To: Glenn
Shouldn't have sent the programming offshore...
11 posted on 01/23/2004 12:05:43 PM PST by Jack Wilson
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But if it was a Mac, it would have cost 3 times as much and there would have only been 1 supplier for the hardware.
12 posted on 01/23/2004 12:06:41 PM PST by ChromeDome
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Any minute the Mac crowd will show up and swear this never would have happened with Mac OS.

And thru offshoring to them damn Indian software developers.

13 posted on 01/23/2004 12:06:58 PM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (Principled conservatives need not apply...we're all centrists now. Shut up & pay your taxes.)
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I knew we could blame it on Bill Gates. Any minute the Mac crowd will show up and swear this never would have happened with Mac OS.

Uhhh...actually it's running Linux. I'll bet the guy who wrote that routine isn't getting much sleep right now!

14 posted on 01/23/2004 12:07:01 PM PST by 6ppc
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Uhhh...actually it's running Linux.

Are you series?. If true, its very ironic.

15 posted on 01/23/2004 12:09:16 PM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (Principled conservatives need not apply...we're all centrists now. Shut up & pay your taxes.)
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Offshore JAVA programming. (shudders)
16 posted on 01/23/2004 12:09:48 PM PST by Ingtar (Understanding is a three-edged sword : your side, my side, and the truth in between ." -- Kosh)
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And thru offshoring to them damn Indian software developers.

Hee, hee...I wonder how much "HadjiiCode" is running in that box? {8^)

17 posted on 01/23/2004 12:09:59 PM PST by 6ppc
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Uhhh...actually it's running Linux. I'll bet the guy who wrote that routine isn't getting much sleep right now!

It actually runs on VxWorks and not Linux.
18 posted on 01/23/2004 12:10:41 PM PST by overtaxed_canadian
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To: BureaucratusMaximus
It's true (and series)
19 posted on 01/23/2004 12:10:56 PM PST by 6ppc
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Any minute the Mac crowd will show up and swear this never would have happened with Mac OS.

That's OS X to you, bub.

20 posted on 01/23/2004 12:12:07 PM PST by Glenn (MS:Where do you want to go today? OSX:Where do you want to go tomorrow?Linux:Are you coming or what?)
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