[PLUG] Quote of the Day

[Steve Bonds]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Keith ac7xc-lnx-at-earthlink.net |PDX Linux| wrote:

> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=2&u=/nm/20030814/tc_nm/power_outage_worm_dc
> 
> Paller said it is "highly unlikely" that the process control computers
> behind critical infrastructure like power in the United States would
> run on the Windows operating system.

Yep, most of the ones I've seen run Solaris or SunOS.  Still scary.

The kicker is that the power grid can run fine without most of these
computers, it just can't run at full capacity.  (Or, more precisely, it
can't run at 125+% capacity, only 100% capacity...)

  -- Steve