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don't forget to reboot your boeing, or else

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eugenenine:
"The FAA has received a report indicating that the stale-data monitoring function of CCS {common core system (CCS) – a Wind River VxWorks realtime OS product} may be lost when continuously powered on for 51 days"

Sounds like its technically not Boeing's fault here, it is the (VxWorks) OS they used.  What else uses VxWorks that could also be affected?  Airplanes, Rockets, medical devices?, nuclear launch controllers?

coppercone2:
you can't blame a subassembly for a failure unless it happens after it passes testing and is released, otherwise you did not integrate it correctly IMO

eugenenine:
My point was more that its not just a Boeing subassembly, its used in other places so other things could have issues as well.

coppercone2:

--- Quote from: eugenenine on April 07, 2020, 08:46:23 pm ---My point was more that its not just a Boeing subassembly, its used in other places so other things could have issues as well.

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scary to think there is a missile silo or detection radar system some where that happens to do a generator test monthly and its not been found.. god forbid someone gets lazy. I wonder if the military is more prone to this (perhaps a UPS can be considered a reliability problem and they would rather tolerate a small power down for seconds on a generator, or budget cuts)? Also mobile things that setup temporarily but connect to a complex sensor grid might have this undetected, used for training frequently, etc (SAM stuff maybe?)

Psi:

--- Quote from: JustMeHere on April 06, 2020, 07:04:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: MathWizard on April 04, 2020, 03:06:12 am ---Boeing, what an enigma. They make bombs to kill 3rd world people, to help make rich people richer, and they make nice planes, overall.

--- End quote ---

Boeing has never made a bomb.

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Unless Wikipedia is wrong, they make rockets and missiles.
I'm not sure if they make the explosive payloads themselves, but even if they don't i think it's fair to say they make weapons of war.

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