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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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