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Subject: Bug in Windows-operated toilet system
I was at a press conference on Thursday with PalmSource at One Aldwych, which is one of those hyper-modern London hotels. One of its features is a airplane-style vacuum-operated toilet system. One of the Palm execs told me that while they were staying at the hotel this system failed, and any time they wanted to use the bathroom or take a shower they had to call the reception desk and get escorted to the corporate headquarters in the building next door to use the facilities there. For a couple of *days*.
It transpires that the entire plumbing system is run by a Windows-based computer system and whatever went wrong with it was so obscure that they had to get a technician from the company that supplied it on a plane down from Scotland to fix it and reboot.
Subject: Bug in Windows-operated toilet system
I was at a press conference on Thursday with PalmSource at One Aldwych, which is one of those hyper-modern London hotels. One of its features is a airplane-style vacuum-operated toilet system. One of the Palm execs told me that while they were staying at the hotel this system failed, and any time they wanted to use the bathroom or take a shower they had to call the reception desk and get escorted to the corporate headquarters in the building next door to use the facilities there. For a couple of *days*.
It transpires that the entire plumbing system is run by a Windows-based computer system and whatever went wrong with it was so obscure that they had to get a technician from the company that supplied it on a plane down from Scotland to fix it and reboot.
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Теперь попробуем сформулировать то же сообщение за вычетом притянутого за уши Microsoft bashing: Subject: Bug in computer-operated toilet system.
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Могу лишь предположить, что баг в Юникс-ситеме, скорее всего, можно было бы починить издалека. Так они обычно строятся. Хотя кто знает - возможно, именно в этом унитазном колоссе, может, и нельзя бы :)
Цимес тут, разумеется, вовсе не в виндовсе, а в самом сществовании такой системы in the first place и в дизайне, который при поломке требует присутствия техника. В windows такие дизайны не редкость, но и в Unix бывают - см., например, мою недавнюю жалобу на Nettracker.
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http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/234387.htm
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