[Tfug] Ack! I suddenly became afraid of flying.

[Leo Przybylski]

About the banks, Citigroup and its affiliates (Wells Fargo, Norwest 
Financial, Citibank, etc...) all use Oracle for Solaris running on Sun 
Enterprise systems with Veritas backups. It's not GNU software, but no 
WORM's included.

-Leo Przybylski
http://foopan.leosandbox.org
http://grow.arizona.edu

Harry McGregor wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Leo Przybylski wrote:
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>>Some of you may have already seen this.
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>>http://www.di.fm/pics/win2kfreeze.gif
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>Yep, most of the monitors in airports run Win9x or 2K (better ones are
>running 2K) with Matrox multihead video cards.
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>That is not the scary part of things.  That is only front end data
>display.  The scary thing is that a lot of banks and airlines are now
>using MS SQL server.  Several airports had delays and canceled flights
>over the weekend due to the MS SQL worm.  And before anyone asks, yes, I
>was flying this weekend, and thus have a first hand account of the
>problem.  Only effected some airlines, but you could easily see it on the
>displays at Newark international airport, on sunday.
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>			Harry
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>>-Leo Przybylski
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