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During new year celebrations in Seattle, they had to reboot Windows right in the middle of the fireworks! That took too long , so they had to set off the pyro m

During new year celebrations in Seattle, they had to reboot Windows right in the middle of the fireworks! That took too long , so they had to set off the pyro manually. http://kirubakaran.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-year-gift-from-our-rich-uncle-mike.html http://kirubakaran.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-year-gift-from-o... That was no way of the same magnitude as the ATC crash, but still the failure was so real and viivd as I was there in person.

gduffy 19y ago
The blog you link to, http://blogs.king5.com/archives/2008/01/computer_glitch.html http://blogs.king5.com/archives/2008/01/computer_glitch.html, says that the error was due to a corrupted file (assuming this means for the firework control software).
- kirubakaran 19y ago
  First, when questioned by the TV crews, the pyro guys refused to say what OS they were running. They did say that they had to reboot the computer. Then later (may be after suits with duffel bags arrived) they said that it was just due to a corrupted file. It was a screw up big enough to be worthy of a cover up (since it touched the common man). It sounds like a nut-job conspiracy theory but I have difficulty giving MS the benefit of the doubt.