Bad news for fans of dead trekkers: The rocket that was to transport the ashes of Federation Starship Commander Montgomery Scott (aka actor James Doohan) into orbit has blown off course and is now stranded somewhere in New Mexico's San Andres Mountains. Officials at UP Aerospace Inc. are trying to locate their rocket before they're forced to change the company name to DOWN Aerospace Inc.
In a similar vein, Microsoft XP users found themselves stranded when their Windows Automatic Update went off course following Microsoft's massive patchfest last Tuesday. Apparently svchost.exe completely took over users' CPU cycles, causing a meltdown in their dilithium chambers. A hotfix issued by Microsoft has done nothing to solve the problem, though disabling automatic updates seems to be the best workaround.
No word whether Scotty's rocket was running Windows Automatic Update at the time of the crash. But I suspect the Romulans had a hand in all this.
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Posted by Robert X. Cringely on May 14, 2007 08:25 AM
