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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Paging Bill Gates, Please pick up the blue courtesy phone. Bill Gates, paging Bill Gates.....
2 posted on
07/24/2010 10:32:57 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
3 posted on
07/24/2010 10:34:36 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Don’t these geniuses have an IT department?
4 posted on
07/24/2010 10:34:52 AM PDT by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
LOL!
You can’t rely on Windows as a true real-time operating system. Same is true for the Apple OSes.
They need QNX or the like. Maybe then they would have saved billions of dollars.
5 posted on
07/24/2010 10:34:56 AM PDT by
ConservativeMind
(The NAACP is a bunch of cracker-hating bigots and I condemn the NAACP for being a racist element.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Should’ve used Unix or Linux.
8 posted on
07/24/2010 10:35:52 AM PDT by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.....Eagle scout since Sep 9, 1970)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
ouch.
SAFE Mode.
ouch
running OS2 or NT5.0
9 posted on
07/24/2010 10:36:21 AM PDT by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Someone didn’t understand the term “mission critical” when out shopping for software.
To: Sub-Driver; BOBTHENAILER; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; onyx; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; ...
This gives some detail on a host of problems....on the Trans-ocean Rig:
From The Times-Picayune:
Oil spill hearings: Bypassed general alarm doomed workers in drilling area, technician testifies
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About five weeks before the accident, Williams was called to check on a computer system in the drill shack that was constantly on the fritz. Williams said the software was chronically bad, leaving a "blue screen of death" on the driller's interface and often causing the driller to lose crucial data about what was going on in the well. Once, when the Deepwater Horizon was drilling a different well, the computer froze up and the rig took a kick of natural gas while the driller was looking at "erroneous data," Williams said.
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Discussion on Today's TOD says the computer was running a Windows NT system...which is very much out of date .
Not aware whether Windows still supplies any kind of maintenance for it.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Crap. They still have meters and gages, and a guy watching the flow in the mud pit. It may not be as modern but tens of thousands of wells were drilled without computers. First drilling engineer I ever saw on a rig was using a slide rule.
It took a bunch of people not doing the job for this to happen.
14 posted on
07/24/2010 10:40:03 AM PDT by
HoustonCurmudgeon
("I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER!" ~ MNJohnnie, FReeper)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
..well, you can blame it on the blue of death, or you can blame it on the Lee Harvey Oswald, but the real problem originates w/the greasy geezers on the grassy knoll......
15 posted on
07/24/2010 10:40:19 AM PDT by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
Fairly un-humorous as a “blue screen of death” actually caused several deaths.
16 posted on
07/24/2010 10:41:16 AM PDT by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Who allowed the worst oil pollution disaster in American history and did nothing?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
They should have used a MAC.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Testifying at a federal hearing on Friday, the chief electronics technician told of numerous instances of a "Blue Screen of Death" on the computer system responsible for monitoring and controlling drilling. The largest oil spill in American history may be due to a simple computer glitch. The machine had been locking up for months, Williams said, producing what he and others on the crew called a "blue screen of death." "It would just turn blue. You'd have no data coming through," Williams said today, according to the New York Times' story. With the computer frozen, the driller would not have access to crucial data about what was going on in the well. No where in here does it talk about this being related to the oil spill.
But Obama will use this as an excuse to nationalize the software industry.
Effing socialist.
18 posted on
07/24/2010 10:43:24 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Anybody know what that operating environment is like?
If it's a high-vibration environment, that can wreck havoc on hard drives and connectors.
19 posted on
07/24/2010 10:44:06 AM PDT by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Before we blame the OS where where the IT guys?..This has been going on for months. Just another indication of sloppiness...
21 posted on
07/24/2010 10:44:52 AM PDT by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sounds like that whole rig was a clusterf$ck. Disabled gas sensor, broken BOP, failing computer systems - the BP admins was INSISTED that the contractors press on with the drilling regardless should be tried for murder.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I’m no fan of Microsoft Windows (Slackware since ‘96), but this sounds like classic toss the blame around to see what sticks.
28 posted on
07/24/2010 10:54:35 AM PDT by
SpaceBar
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ha ha ha ha someone used it to watch porn and it got a virus!
31 posted on
07/24/2010 10:57:20 AM PDT by
webheart
(I am a Sarah fan.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Good thing computers were invented, or we’d never have been able to drill for oil.
33 posted on
07/24/2010 10:58:23 AM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
More than likely it’s something related to the computer itself and not the OS. I’ve done countless installs of Windows for myself and for others and every BSOD I’ve encountered was the fault of a attached piece of hardware, a peripheral or faulty memory stick or the motherboard itself.
36 posted on
07/24/2010 10:59:48 AM PDT by
BigSkyFreeper
(In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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