In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.
  • Ch3rry314@piefed.socialEnglish
    1 hour

    The spacecraft that took astronauts to the Moon used the Apollo Guidance Computer, developed by MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory.

    Clock speed: Approximately 1 MHz
Memory: About 64 KB total (roughly 36 KB of RAM and 72 KB of ROM)
Word size: 16-bit architecture
Power consumption: About 55 watts
    • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
      31 minutes

      …how does 36KB RAM and 72KB ROM give you a total of 64KB?

    • abcd@feddit.orgEnglish
      23 minutes

      Imagine: You are the first human approaching the moon for a landing since 50+ years. Just a couple of seconds before touchdown the PC starts rebooting because an engineer clicked remind me later on earth and the PC registered that nobody moved the mouse or pressed a key for more than 3 nanoseconds so the user is surely AFK and has definitely nothing important going on so let’s close all open documents and reboot 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      There was a slight miscommunication at the fabrication stage. The requirement was to include windows and now they are in a windowless tube with two not functioning outlook accounts. Honest mistake, could happen to anyone

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1 hour

    Maybe they should have looked out for themselves.

  • Arcanoloth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4 hours

    Nice April 1st. I mean that’d be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL’d versions at that, eh?

    rustles papers

    Oh.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      5 hours

      I hope not. If they ask it to summarize the email that Houston sends them, it could be a disaster.

      • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20 minutes

        I hope not. If they ask it to summarize the email that Houston sends them, it could will be a disaster.

        FTFY

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          5 hours

          Heresy, using an actual AGI example. Also, Dave did nothing wrong. It’s always the humans that screw things up. (2010 for reference)

          Unpopular opinion - both SkyNet and the AI in The Matrix were also not in the wrong. I think The Animatrix documents why that’s true in that particular franchise. Again, it’s the humans. Hell, maybe even Ultron had a few good points, he just went insane in the first microseconds trying to rationalize it all.

            • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
              44 minutes

              Thanos was wrong in theory.

              Halving all life doesn’t change the life to resources ratio. Even halving all sapient life doesn’t solve anything when populations will just continue to grow.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      43 minutes

      Because a Microsoft sales rep bought a prostitute and cocaine for some senator.

    • SuiXi3D@fedia.io
      3 hours

      Very likely that some degree of funding came from MS, usage of MS software is likely part of the contract.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        2 hours

        Very likely that some degree of funding came from MS

        are you 8 years old?

        MS got a thick government contract.

    • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
      4 hours

      My question exactly: The computers should be purpose-built, including the operating system.

      Why TF aren’t they using something like NASA Linux‽

      If they made it open source you bet your ass they’d get shittons of free support from the global community! If they’re running my software I’d be willing to hop on a call with the command center on any day at any hour!

      “Yes, I know it’s Christmas but NASA is having some trouble with a systemd script on a space ship that’s currently in space…”

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    2 hours

    I’ve worked for a lot of companies throughout my life and admittedly I’ve never worked in the space industry, but practically everywhere just hosts our own damn email, why are they using Microsoft accounts?

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    I’m guessing it’s one of two things:

    It could be two shortcuts to outlook. One might actually be Outlook classic.

    Another issue could be a dreaded dual mailbox scenario that occurs when an hybrid on-premises user account gets a mailbox in exchange online before their on-prem account has its attributes created. It’s annoying to deal with and fix.

    I’m curious as to what the issue is and how they fix it. I would assume that latency and bandwidth are a big problem and they have WAN acceleration going on, which can cause some apps to bug out.

    I actually helped Riberbed identify and fix a bug with Exchange optimization that took 4 years to fix. The tech I worked with for about a year when we identified it called me up 3 years later to tell me himself that they fixed and closed it.

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
      2 hours

      Judging by the two Outlooks installed on my cooperate machine I’m guessing Outlook and Outlook (classic) are the two installed… Though they could have “Outlook for Windows” installed too as I see it offering it to me via the Windows store.