Why in the everliving fuck would NASA put ANYTHING Microsoft into a spacecraft?
Because Gates fucked Children with the President on Epstein’s Island…
It’s almost as if this bullshit project was just pork barrelling for overpriced contracts.
Bro. Moon travel isn’t bullshit. It’s necessary to save the planet. We need to go colonize outer orbit on massive colonies. Let the planet heal.
The entire craft is built by giant US legacy corporations. Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, etc. Microsoft is just one more in the pile.
Your laptop is built by "legacy corporations, " but if you put Linux on it, it works better.
I’m going to sound super stupid but w/e.
What happens to all your files when you install Linux?
It’s just basically a GUI, right so does Linux create its own space and ignore what’s there?
All operating systems we tend to use have filesystems. A filesystem is a methodology for writing data in a way that the OS can read. Windows included.
When you install a new OS, such as linux, you must choose how to allocate your disk space. You can use the whole disk - which would format and rewrite the system to be compatible with the flavor of linux you chose - or you can reallocate space on the drive if you have enough. This will move around the available free space, create the filesystem I just mentioned on that free space you designated, and leave your old windows files intact.
You can now interact with these from the Linux side with the right commands (mounting the windows partition and gaining access). You could even “dual boot,” which would allow you to choose which OS you want to go to at startup.
I’ve HIGHLY simplified this since it’s just a quick explanation, but that’s the gist of it. There are obviously more scenarios, pitfalls, etc.
When I was first starting out in like 1996 or 1997, I was running FreeBSD 2.2.2. I accidentally wiped my system so many times that I stopped caring what got lost. It took me a while before I understood what the hell I was doing. Poring over man pages and instructions to figure it out.
They are going to space to seed the cloud
You would think that Microsoft would be like this is going to space. Let’s pull out all the stops. But no, it’s the same corporate crap!
I sometimes wonder if the Microsoft haters are in a bubble or if people who remember just how fucked up Microsoft was are just starting to age out at this point. I would like to think that Anyone who follows security related news and current tech news are also aware just how shit Microsoft is (and always was), but again, I migjt be very biased lol
Me, and the rest of the member of the various unix enthusit groups I belong to, would never ever ever want anything to do with Microsoft unless we are forced to use it for some stupid reason.
For all we know, there might have been one person high up in the chain of command that is not aware just how fucking bad Microsoft is.
I have a feeling a lot of people will be asking NASA a lot of questions about it, now that there is a huge spotlight on it.
I have a foot on both sides of the fence. I work with MS products for a living, doing all sorts of stuff with AD - ask me specifics if you actually want to know - but I run Linux at home. Arch on my laptop, a variant on my NAS, a very scaled down one thing on a terminal, and I started my whole computer world on FreeBSD 2.2.2 back in 1997.
People in NASA who do real work know. They’re like everyone else. They just don’t have clout. So, if a C-level dipshit says “We’re using Outlook on the space ship,” that’s that.
Yes, I think we are on the same page on this one lol
And of all things, an email client?? What the fuck are they doing?
Porn.
Space Force TV show continues to fulfill the prophecy.
“NASA says they’ll remotely connect to the computer to see what the problem is.”
'Hello, this is your NASA certified Microsoft certied tech support, you need to send us gift cards to unblock your computer"
“WHY HAVE YOU REDEEM”
DOOOOO NOOOT REDEEEM!
Kitboga is the best
“The soul called Mr Barrister John Warosa” intensifies
Also known as “nominal outlook performance”
You would think that the absolute basic, minimum requirement for taking something on a space mission is that it complies with open standards.
If you have standards compliant programs, it’s easy to set up a back-up client in case the primary doesn’t work. If your email is “Outlook” and you are tied to the outlook server and something breaks, there’s your single point of failure. Sucks to be you.
What if the problem is server side
What if the problem is DNS
It’s easy to set up high-availability for servers running on the ground.
Easy?
And all problems are solved by high availability?
It seems you have problems with running your multi billion dollar rocket. Would you like me to help you with that?
100 billion dollar budget.
The rare occasion when “It’s not rocket science!” means it’s harder.
Who the f permits taking unverified software on a space trip?
This is just… so perfectly emblematic of where we are as a society.
Why would you not use internal NASA programmed software? Oh wait, we’re beyond that now, we just ask Claude to vomit up a mess from its exabytes of source code and vibe our way to the Moon!!!
Is NASA using Claude? It makes me shudder to think that people are developing mission critical (literally, not that corpo bullshit) software using LLMs.
They say Microslop CoPilot is already on the case.
This made me laugh harder than I expected.
The best part is there was literally an MS service outage just this afternoon. Email was seemingly flowing but admin portal was fucked and returned nothing but “service unavailable”.
Microsoft has always been questionable at best but ever since Steve Ballmer left, is been incredibly shit.
Let this be a lesson about putting windows OS on space equipment.
Let this be a lesson about putting it anywhere.
Have they tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?
