Re: computer network on Discovery unreliable?

"Jorge R. Frank" <jrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:X4oJe.84044$G8.17156@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> On many Communications on this mission they seem to have had to
>> reboot the systems to get a machine called proshare visible on the
>> ground in order to transfer data. What version of Windows are they
>> using?Sounds like 98, surely not!!
>
> It's 98SE. They really need to replace the laptops before they can upgrade
> the OS; the 760XDs just don't have the muscle to run anything more
> modern.

Should have more than enough oomph to run some Linux. Seriously. Could
easily save some man-hours per flight. Give those machines and the
functionality required to me and I'll work something out for a
reasonable price. Too cheap for government work, probably. Well. I've
been biting my desk more than once over the crew not having a simple
UUCP system up. And a mail server and some FTP and lots of specialized
GUI thingies. Did that on 486-class machines and they never missed a
beat. Try that with MS Windows 98 and you get what you deserve. Why
don't they try at least Solaris for these?


Jochem

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