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No excuses here folks, this is NASA, they develop their own apps (I hope) and shouldn't be tied to an OS that requires frequent reboots, reinstalls, and antivirus just to keep running.]]>Aug 27th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/
simple rule, just because it poped up and flashed on the screen does not mean you have to download it....


this is like saying your car is unsafe when you run redlights and stop signs daily]]>Aug 27th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station) ]]>Aug 27th 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/
Should be using Firefox. ]]>Aug 27th 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/
If you don't have antivirus you can get a virus using any browser.
Firefox is not anti virus software don't assume it can keep you safe. It may have less security holes but it still has them.]]>Aug 27th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/
My FF3 with NoScript begs to differ.]]>Aug 27th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/
simple rule, just because it poped up and flashed on the screen does not mean you have to download it....


this is like saying your car is unsafe when you run redlights and stop signs daily]]>Aug 27th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/
Your comment system BLOWS harder than my Xbox 360.


That is all,

From My Cube]]>Aug 27th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/
Either you don't know squat about linux or just missed the part where he mentioned 42 days (thanks to a kernel update). In case you know squat about linux, the kernel is the core of the operating system. When it is updated, the system needs to be rebooted for it to take effect. The whole point is that a kernel upgrade is just about the only update that requires you to reboot a linux system.

If you would like better, my Gentoo server is currently at 485 days and more like 750 if I didn't have a count a power outage.

What I want to know is why doesn't linux support rebooting of the OS with out rebooting of the system. Since multiple processors is pretty common, since Sun Sparc Station have been doing it for a long time, that linux would be able to do it by now. Essentially all the running processes were passed to one processor and system for them to run was kept open while the other processor "rebooted" the updated system. Once the updated system was up, everything was brought back to running on the updated system and it was as though nothing happened.]]>Aug 27th 2008 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Bernhard @ Aug 27th 2008 1:39PM

"Wait till you are stuck 300 000 miles above the earth without the ability to play WoW."


The ISS is only about 210 miles up.....supercharged .N anyone?

300,000 miles and you would be further than the moon.]]>Aug 27th 2008 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/ok, so they have a satalite connection.. what would that bandwith be?! Something to the likes of china with 400Mb/s to the home users?! ok.. so their ping is like ]]>Aug 27th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/I used to have to survive on satellite broadband, sure the throughput's great, but the ping - well thats god-awful - don't expect to be playing any online games with it
The ping is down to the distance travelled from earth to satellite back down to earth again - but if you're up on the same level, that ping is going to be much more manageable (probably cut right in half - depending on where the ISS is compared to the satellite).
So with all that data they're undoubtedly transferring on their superfast connection, on windows machines, a virus was sadly inevitable.

And yeh it figures the virus came through on WoW, like the previous poster said, I'm sure their systems, though based on windows, will all have bespoke software on, and as mentioned in the article, an intranet, that I'm sure is used amongst other things, to update all their software builds and AV definitions. Their system was secured against what the system is and what it does (what software is used, how it connects) unfortunately for the Astronouts, and now for NASA - WoW didn't come as standard - and so was not protected against.

Am I the only one who thinks its frikkin cool the astronauts have internet up there?!
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Sadly, I think the reason the space station folks didn't go with Linux is that the HAL daemon scares them a little.]]>Aug 27th 2008 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/
thanks for the memories, Steven Spielterd]]>Aug 27th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/space-station-laptops-catch-nuisance-virus/Aug 27th 2008 6:25PM