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WmHBlair writes:
From the one would think that this would have been caught before anybody was embarrassed department: "Two top Spanish transport officials have resigned over a botched order for new commuter trains that cost nearly €260m ($275m; £230m). The trains could not fit into non-standard tunnels in the northern regions of Asturias and Cantabria."
771179
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WmHBlair writes:
Flightglobal has a report about the upgrades being made to the B-2A Stealth Bomber, which include Pentium class processors, JOVIAL code rewritten in C, and fibre channel hard drives. The Register, as usual, makes its usual light of this event with a tongue-in-cheek news item noting that the Upgrade drags Stealth Bomber IT systems into the 90s.
659524
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WmHBlair writes:
Data recovered from a 400MB Seagate hard drive carried on the Space Shuttle Columbia has been used to complete a physics experiment performed on the mission in space. The Johnson Space Center sent the recovered drive to Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Considering the shape the drive was in (see picture at http://blocksandfiles.com/article/5056), it could indeed qualify for the 'most amazing disk data recovery ever.'
