The second was about our pal on Mars, Spirit. Wind River, the maker of Vx Works (RTOS) made a nice little error when they lets say overlooked a part where they should have handled an exception gracefully. So Spirit was rebooting itself over & over trying to allocate memory each time & failing (coz its memory had other data) & the exception generated by this wasn't handled gracefully. The article is here & is a nice read. Wind River also has this kickass slogan that goes Mars 360o. Not another OS in sight. I guess that is something to be proud of ;)
Lazed around today, updated Gentoo, played Curse of Monkey Island. Oh & in Half-Life am stuck at a level where I need to kill tons of stupid floating monsters & can't coz I run out of Gauss Gun ammo everytime & any other weapon is not as effective as the gauss gun. So I've all but given up on that.
And no thanks to rats, my building's electrical system is going to go in for a complete upgrade. That means for the whole of this week, from 1000 to 1630, I won't have power in the house. Dang blast those rats...