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[Lp-italia] Linux Saves Aussie Electrical Grid


From: redo
Subject: [Lp-italia] Linux Saves Aussie Electrical Grid
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:00:52 +0200 (CEST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23)


A Windows virus hit the display consoles in the control room of the Australian national electricity grid, presumably leaving the managers bind to the system status. Luckily, system administrators had Linux-based systems for development that could be swapped out for the disabled Windows machines. It seems as much of a failure to properly maintain the Windows machines as a failure of judgment in using a virus-susceptible OS for mission critical systems, but it's fun schadenfreude fodder for Windows haters.




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