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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,199 posts)
Tue May 19, 2015, 09:15 PM May 2015

Boeing IT Department, have you tried turning your plane off and back on again?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/68245598/boeing-787-dreamliner-turn-off-and-on-again

Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Turn off and on again

Last updated 11:27, May 4 2015

Boeing's 787 Dreamliners may need to be turned off and turned on again to deal with a serious software bug that could cause total loss of power, reports say.

Laboratory testing found the plane's power control units could shut down power generators if they were powered without interruption for 248 days, or about eight months, the US Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday.

The findings were published in an airworthiness directive.

Boeing said the problem occurred only in lab simulation and no airplane had experienced it, The New York Times reported.

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Glad to know Roy's still keeping busy.

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Boeing IT Department, have you tried turning your plane off and back on again? (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti May 2015 OP
I like the Amish IT guy Skittles May 2015 #1
Lol. My boyfriend has been screaming at our computer for the last two days. Hassin Bin Sober May 2015 #4
LOL Tommy_Carcetti May 2015 #5
+ a lot for the IT Crowd reference. DisgustipatedinCA May 2015 #2
Quite possibly the funniest television show I've seen, ever. Tommy_Carcetti May 2015 #7
+1... SidDithers May 2015 #10
Is that is the one... MindPilot May 2015 #11
no no... it is the one ProdigalJunkMail May 2015 #13
"I'm disabled! I'm disabled!" Tommy_Carcetti May 2015 #12
is he from the newspaper? ProdigalJunkMail May 2015 #14
"An ill wind is calling...." Tommy_Carcetti May 2015 #15
no good can come of your trip to the theatre tonight... ProdigalJunkMail May 2015 #17
"Yes, miss?"... SidDithers May 2015 #18
"How are you disabled?" ... "I'm leg disabled"... SidDithers May 2015 #19
The scene where Moss had to testify in court literally had me gasping for air. Tommy_Carcetti May 2015 #20
Avoid long flights. GeorgeGist May 2015 #3
The IT savants at my aerospace firm leave about as much to be desired GummyBearz May 2015 #6
A friend of mine bricked his 777 by spilling a cup of coffee AngryAmish May 2015 #8
An overflow? Xithras May 2015 #9
Rough guess.... sendero May 2015 #16

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,344 posts)
4. Lol. My boyfriend has been screaming at our computer for the last two days.
Tue May 19, 2015, 09:29 PM
May 2015

He wasn't amused when I said this looked like him working on our computer.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,199 posts)
7. Quite possibly the funniest television show I've seen, ever.
Tue May 19, 2015, 09:36 PM
May 2015

Even better than Arrested Development, and that's bloody genius.

 

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)
11. Is that is the one...
Tue May 19, 2015, 11:45 PM
May 2015

with the bomb-detection robot running Vista? I fully agree.

"I thought turkeys could fly" is a distant second.

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
13. no no... it is the one
Thu May 21, 2015, 08:47 AM
May 2015

where they go to see the musical "Gay"... and Roy has his wheelchair stolen. that show knew no bounds... sooo funny.

sP

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,199 posts)
12. "I'm disabled! I'm disabled!"
Thu May 21, 2015, 08:44 AM
May 2015

"Uh-huh... How long have you been disabled?"
"Ten years?"
"Ten years, and how did it happen? If that's not a rude question."
"...Acid?"

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
14. is he from the newspaper?
Thu May 21, 2015, 08:48 AM
May 2015

oh, yes... he's from The Standard.

i cried during that episode...

sP

OnEdit : When Jen looks and sees Moss behind the bar... oh, man, that's good comedy!

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
17. no good can come of your trip to the theatre tonight...
Thu May 21, 2015, 08:55 AM
May 2015

so much in that episode...

i trod on a lego, OH, it went right in the heel!

sP

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
19. "How are you disabled?" ... "I'm leg disabled"...
Thu May 21, 2015, 08:57 AM
May 2015

So many great moments in that episode. So many great moments from that show.



Sid

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
8. A friend of mine bricked his 777 by spilling a cup of coffee
Tue May 19, 2015, 09:41 PM
May 2015

All glass cockpit? Great until it turns off. Radio? Bricked too. Controls still worked somehow.

Then the stupid copilot put the code for hijacking instead of no radio. They almost got shot down. Luckily he was an old F 15 pilot and somehow kept his passengers alive.

Xithras

(16,191 posts)
9. An overflow?
Tue May 19, 2015, 09:48 PM
May 2015

Kind of shocking that something like that could make it through testing. That's usually one of the primary things testers look for in embedded systems programming.

Somebody is getting fired.

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