[oclug] OT: Famous Blue-Screens of Death

[Dave Edwards]

Andrew Hutton wrote:
> Yep, and the ironic thing... last time I was coming home from Swansea
> I ran into a similar BSOD at Heathrow.
> 
> Makes you wonder about some of the people making the decisions if the
> SAME problem is happening for more than 2 years in somewhere as anal as
> a British Airport.

It made me wonder what the ``you-can-set-your-watch-by-it'' airports in
Zurich or Geneva run.  That brought to mind something told me by a friend
with a connection at CERN, cradle of the WWW, among other things: 
apparently the Swiss banks are so conservative and fearful of change
(unless it rattles) that they are still each running a floor of old VAXen
as their IT backbone, and are still disinclined to change anything.

Dave.