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| DATE | 2019-07-20 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] MTA trains all stopped because there
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On 7/20/19 11:28 PM, S. wrote:
> Ruben:
>
> 1. your email looks like this- see below- machine characters, something
> didn't translate ?
>
> 2. was curious what hardware, OS etc MTA is using. I assume Windows is
> the OS, application home grown ? Hardware- clustered PC's client server
> or some flavor of mid range ? To run the subways, its gotta have some
> power. Mainframe ?
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, July 19, 2019, 11:26:30 PM EDT, Ruben Safir
> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/19/19 11:22 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> 
>> 
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>> METRO
>> Communications failure grinds 7 subway lines to a halt during sweltering
>> rush hour commute
>> By David Meyer and Joe Marino July 19, 2019 | 7:21pm | Updated
>> 
>> Maya Blackstone
>> -at-MayaBlackstone
>> The subways in Times Square are a zoo as all #numbered #train #lines in
>> #newyorkcity are out of service. #mta
>>
>> 
>> 8
>> 7:11 PM - Jul 19, 2019
> went on the
>> blink, subways boss Andy Byford said, promising an investigation into
>> what went wrong.
>>
>> “I absolutely want to get to the bottom of this,� he said.
>>
>> “I totally understand their frustration,� he said of
> commuters.
>>
>>
>
> Without signals, “We did not know exactly where our trains were,†Byford
> said.
>
> UNFUCKING BELIEVABLE. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EYES AND EARS OF ENGINEERS
> AND THE FUCKING RADIO
>
Understand that the MTA has spent BILLIONS of dollars and can't find
their fucking trains if the computers have a routine glitch. No
redundency, no manual overrides, no security, just a mouse trap doomed
for failure.
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So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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