[Cialug] "Linux Saves Aussie Electrical Grid"

[Nathan Stien]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1556944/linux-saves-aussie-electricity

> A Windows virus hit the networks of Intergral Energy and, according to a
> submission to Slashdot, the virus managed to spread to the operator display
> consoles in the control room.

Quick thinking techies in the control systems department of the utility
> swapped the infected Windows boxes for machines running Linux that they were
> using for development.


 The sick part, however, is that all they needed was X-servers for talking
to the Solaris machines that really control the grid.  So they were running
X-servers on MS Windows...
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