1983 – Nuclear War avoided for miracle.
A bug in the Defense Soviet System fake the attack of 5 intercontinental missile against U.S.S.R Stanislav Petrov suspect the error, he think that makes no sense to attack with only 5 warheads, he is right the world is safe.
1990 – At&T Network down
A line of code in a software update cause the loss of 75 milion phone calls.
The economic damage for the little bug is huge. they loose 200.000 customers.
1996 – Ariane 5 Explosion
The software selfdestruct the rocket cause he was trying to write 64bit
in a 16bit variable.. 8 Billions on smoke literally
1998 – Mars Probe
A probe fly too low and crash, beacouse the software
use two different measures system (metric and imperial?)
1999 – Siemens and british passport
A buggy software prevents 500k to go
on vacanct outside the island, millions are paid
as re-fund.
1999-2000 – Millenium Bug
The hyped bug never happened but the catastrophism
pushed the software updates, in the end were spent 500 bilions euro
2004 – EDS and CSA operative system upgrade
Cause the installation of a new operative system,
agency collapse and millions wasted.
2006 – Airbus A380 Software incompatible
One year loss and economic beacouse two of the manufacturers
had different software versions.
2006 – Explosive laptop (literally)
Defective battery caused many laptop to start
burning.. 4 milions models retired.
2007 – Los Angeles Airport Tilt
Traffic control software goes crazy, and 17.000 fly
doesn t start, the guilty is a network card..
I think on this list miss the Windows Vista (2007), millions of dollars to develop and pubblish this new operative system which no one wants and no one uses. It’s not a case that they are already talking about Windows 7 (a 30 mb operative system which seems a copycat of Linux). So yea all this time to develop a technology that Linux has from many years…
Warzone 2010 is a 3D RTS game developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in 1999 for both PC and PlayStation. A fan group called Pumpkin-2 managed to petition Eidos, the legal owner of the source, to make Warzone open-source. Now the game is being developed with lots of features added, such as increased multiplayer unit-limit, support for Glide, several compatibility fixes for Windows XP, and most recently, the introduction of static shadows.
Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop. Main changes from last release: Completed I/O completion. Improved user credentials management, including Mac Keychain support. More Valgrinding. Lots of bug fixes.
LOTP is an army shooting game set in a galactic universe where the corporation sets the rules. Follow drunk ex-war hero Zeke Johnson as he rejoins the corps for one last deadly mission into the pits of hell itself.
Multiplayer map called “Rivers of Kront” gives 6 players divided to 3 teams ability to match each other. The key to victory on this map is competent using of magical fields which are essence of the magical world of the game. Besides the unique multiplayer map the demo contains 3 single missions from the single player demo.
Lula, the curvaceous producer of erotic movies, is in a serious fix. Just
before shooting begins on her new film, three of her best bosom stars are
kidnapped. There’s no time to lose! Slip into Lula’s role and race off to
Frisco in her racy hot rod. Experience a wild chase across America with
breakneck twists and a volley of erotic action.
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