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FAA flaw reveals deeper holes
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| Most of the problem is that the FAA has just two computing systems, one in
| Atlanta and one in Salt Lake City, to deal with the whole of the US. There
| was no redundancy, or enough different computers and communication channels
| to handle the same workload in an emergency.
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| If the FAA was a power company and it ran its operations in the same way it
| would be fined hundreds of thousand dollars a day.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/01/faa-flaw-reveals-deeper-holes
http://tinyurl.com/65d58p
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| The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8
| MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows
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| operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City.
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http://www.stratustechnologies.com/news/2005/20050314a.htm
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| According to an internal FAA document, the system, called the National
| Airspace Data Interchange Network, crashed on Thursday and caused in
| 134 departure delays. The Salt Lake City system also took over but had
| problems with the high queue level, the document said. The system also
| failed in June 2007.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082602203.html?hpid=sec-nation
Major Flight Delays Caused By Glitch, Dense Fog
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| AMR Corp.'s American Airlines spokesman Tim Wagner acknowledged the
| computer troubles and said the nation's largest carrier experienced
| about 50 cancellations on the East Coast, with LaGuardia departures
| being hit the hardest.
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http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_159145243.html
No Windows Vista For Would-Be Air Traffic Controllers
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| The Federal Aviation Administration plans to bar contractors who administer
| the air traffic controllers exam from using Windows Vista-based PCs.
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http://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/news/2008/07/11/3541592.htm
FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo
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| Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
| hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
| deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
| Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
| computers pass their shelf life.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480
Can Google and Linux Topple Microsoft?
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| The story had a certain flair. In early March, the chief information
| officer of the Federal Aviation Administration, David Bowen, was
| reportedly considering forsaking Microsoft Windows and Office in
| favor of the Linux operating system and the Web-based Google Apps
| Premium office suite.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57534.html
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