5/24/2005: PSP billboard fails with Windows error - Page 2

LCanal · 05-26-2005, 04:29 AM

That's obviously an old cockpit. The new Airbus A380 only has one pilot and a dog.
A dog you ask? Yes a dog.
What is the dogs job? To bite the pilot if he touches the controls.
And the Pilot's job? To feed the dog.

It's an old pilot's joke oops that an old joke about pilot's

dar512 · 05-26-2005, 09:34 AM

As a programmer, these kinds of crashes really make me wonder.

These have to be single-purpose computers, right? And it would make sense that these be closed systems - no network connection to anything. And they're probably running this one processs. So what's to make them crash?

The only thing I can think of is that they must have special video drivers for these screens that aren't written or tested too well.

BrianR · 05-26-2005, 10:33 AM

That makes me think of this cartoon, and also this.

jaguar · 05-26-2005, 10:42 AM

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These have to be single-purpose computers, right? And it would make sense that these be closed systems - no network connection to anything. And they're probably running this one processs. So what's to make them crash?

The same stuff that makes every other program crash? Memory leaks, buffer overflows, incorrectly validated incoming data from controls or sensors.....Sure some of that stuff shouldn't bring down the system but this is windows and it is embedded.

dar512 · 05-26-2005, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by jaguar

The same stuff that makes every other program crash? Memory leaks, buffer overflows, incorrectly validated incoming data from controls or sensors.....Sure some of that stuff shouldn't bring down the system but this is windows and it is embedded.

But with no user input and the data input well known? I'd be embarrased if that were my code.

jaguar · 05-26-2005, 11:12 AM

No user input? It's there over 200 controls in the average modern cockpit? Controlling a few hundred systems from aircon to pressurisation to hydraulics many of which have to interact with custom interfaces for all of them, no off the shelf stuff here...It's not excuse but it's not exactly the easiest thing to code.

LabRat · 05-26-2005, 11:21 AM

That's not Ph*t*sh*pped??

dar512 · 05-26-2005, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by jaguar

No user input? It's there over 200 controls in the average modern cockpit? Controlling a few hundred systems from aircon to pressurisation to hydraulics many of which have to interact with custom interfaces for all of them, no off the shelf stuff here...It's not excuse but it's not exactly the easiest thing to code.

Sorry I wasn't more explicit. I was referring to the PSP billboard and friends.

capnhowdy · 05-26-2005, 09:03 PM

Suddenly the term "crash" has new meaning.....in parallel with the topic.

05-26-2005, 04:29 AM	#16
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	That's obviously an old cockpit. The new Airbus A380 only has one pilot and a dog. A dog you ask? Yes a dog. What is the dogs job? To bite the pilot if he touches the controls. And the Pilot's job? To feed the dog. It's an old pilot's joke oops that an old joke about pilot's __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

05-26-2005, 09:34 AM	#17
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	As a programmer, these kinds of crashes really make me wonder. These have to be single-purpose computers, right? And it would make sense that these be closed systems - no network connection to anything. And they're probably running this one processs. So what's to make them crash? The only thing I can think of is that they must have special video drivers for these screens that aren't written or tested too well. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

05-26-2005, 10:33 AM	#18
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05-26-2005, 11:12 AM	#21
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05-26-2005, 11:21 AM	#22
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