Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003

El_Heffe

Sean Gallagher / Apr 1, 2019 / Biz & IT

Flight management system crash causes airline delays across US

Service provider's software and data used for flight planning by multiple airlines.

AeroData, based in Scottsdale Arizona, is a family-owned corporation with a very low profile on the Internet. According to the company's public website (which hasn't been updated since the company moved from Colorado to Arizona in 2008), AeroData won a 1990 contract with the FAA to "distribute its public domain data." In addition to the weight and balance system, the company also provides airlines with aircraft performance data, other aircraft management applications, and a "compute server system" to host these services.

A Web portal to access the company's software (based on Flash and Microsoft Studio 7.0) was last updated in 2009. The portal advises visitors, "We will be enhancing our Web site in the coming months using Microsoft Silverlight technology."

iKnowItsLame

@El_Heffe said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

"We will be enhancing our Web site in the coming months using Microsoft Silverlight technology."

Is there something wrong with that?
It seems to me I must have missed some memos

/I know somebody still running handheld-scanners from Symbol with DOS 5.? with TCP/IP and telnet.exe; last change I remember was to switch them from <static-IP> to DHCP, around 2005 afair. It ain't broken -> stay the hell away from it!

acrow

@iKnowItsLame It's the subtle difference between an embedded device in an internal network that never sees a dime or SSN, and an attached-to-internet, multi-million handling, personal details added, system.

Edit:
SSO -> SSN

Luhmann

@acrow said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

SSO -> SSN

Sex Change Overload -> Stimulated Stranger Neglect

this does not make sense

Tsaukpaetra

I covet my portablized Office'03 install. Got Word, Excel, Publisher and Powerpoint, all in a nifty 62 MB package! Comparing to Office 2016 which takes no less than 1.32 Gb!

acrow

@Luhmann said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

this does not make sense

Very, true, you're not making any sense; how do you get

Sex Change Overload

from SSO? Woudn't that be SCO?

Anyways, Social Security Numbers. Also known as meatbag registry numbers, slave IDs, government-knows-you numbers, or oppress-the-proletariat -numbers.

Also, around here, the easiest way to state your identity to the public healthcare facility's receptionist. Comes with a built-in error check number too.

Tsaukpaetra

@acrow said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

government-knows-you numbers

Yeah, not really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus

acrow

@Tsaukpaetra Well in Finland it is. Also in Sweden and maybe Norway and Denmark.

Here SSNs really do identify people from cradle to grave, and it's actually hard to apply for a passport with a dead baby's identity, unlike in e.g. UK. It's one of the 3 things that the Finnish government actually got right. (The other 2 being universal bank account numbers and bank transfer Reference Numbers.)

PJH

http://aerodata.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claris_Home_Page

Home Page was discontinued in 2001

Also:

<P><A HREF="index.html" onmouseover="changeImages('nav_01','images/nav_01_on.gif'); return true;" onmouseout="changeImages('nav_01','images/nav_01_off.gif'); return true;"><IMG SRC="images/nav_01_off.gif" ALT="Home" WIDTH=148 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0 ALIGN=bottom hspace=0 vspace=0 name="nav_01"></A></P>

nav_01_off.gif:

nav_01_on.gif:

Carnage

@acrow said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

@Tsaukpaetra Well in Finland it is. Also in Sweden and maybe Norway and Denmark.

Here SSNs really do identify people from cradle to grave, and it's actually hard to apply for a passport with a dead baby's identity, unlike in e.g. UK. It's one of the 3 things that the Finnish government actually got right. (The other 2 being universal bank account numbers and bank transfer Reference Numbers.)

Same in Sweden. It's so ingrained in the workings of society here that you pretty much can't do anything if you do not have a national ID number. (Also, the check-number is the Luhn algorithm, same as for credit card numbers and various other stuff).
ID cards, jobs, bank accounts, loans, appartments, land ownership, it all requires you to have a "SSN".
Temporary residents get a "samordningsnummer" that is kind of, but not really a "personnummer".

witchdoctor

Their web development is also outsourced (bottom of the page): Development provided by Comfort Technical Assistance (http://www.comfortechassist.com/).

EDIT:
arstechnica linked the wrong page. The right one was http://www.aerodata.aero , not aerodata.com

lolwhat

@witchdoctor Ars Technica got something fundamentally wrong? Perish the thought.

PJH

@witchdoctor said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

arstechnica linked the wrong page. The right one was http://www.aerodata.aero , not aerodata.com

Wondered why the Silverlight bit was missing.

OTOH, that's makes it a lot better...

<meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0" name="GENERATOR">
<meta content="Visual Basic 7.0" name="CODE_LANGUAGE">

I think...

Also, Security!:

Due to security resons, AeroData will only allow authorized company IP addresses access. Access from addresses outside a company network are not permitted!

ixvedeusi

@acrow said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

Social Security Numbers. Also known as meatbag ~~registry numbers~~surrogate keys

FTFY

acrow

@Carnage said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

@acrow said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

@Tsaukpaetra Well in Finland it is. Also in Sweden and maybe Norway and Denmark.

Here SSNs really do identify people from cradle to grave, and it's actually hard to apply for a passport with a dead baby's identity, unlike in e.g. UK. It's one of the 3 things that the Finnish government actually got right. (The other 2 being universal bank account numbers and bank transfer Reference Numbers.)

Same in Sweden. It's so ingrained in the workings of society here that you pretty much can't do anything if you do not have a national ID number. (Also, the check-number is the Luhn algorithm, same as for credit card numbers and various other stuff).
ID cards, jobs, bank accounts, loans, appartments, land ownership, it all requires you to have a "SSN".
Temporary residents get a "samordningsnummer" that is kind of, but not really a "personnummer".

The Finnish system may be based on the Swedish one. Finnish politicians get a lot of bribes from the swedish-speaking minority, in exchange for forgetting that we're no longer a part of the Swedish Empire. Makes them copy whatever was implemented in Sweden, with a 5-10 year latency unless commanded to hurry up by his majesty the King of Sweden.

Unperverted Vixen

@PJH said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

OTOH, that's makes it a lot better...

<meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0" name="GENERATOR">
<meta content="Visual Basic 7.0" name="CODE_LANGUAGE">

I think...

The good news is, Visual Studio no longer includes those because they realized that was stupid.

The bad news is, they forgot to include something to automatically remove those when upgrading the solution.

Some of our older pages still have similar headers (albeit C#) - but they’re outdated, the application is using VS2017 and .NET 4.7.

TLDR: yes, it’s better, because there’s no guarantee those are actually what they’re using.

hungrier

@Carnage said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

samordningsnummer

I've heard that if you open a can in your kitchen you'll never get the smell out

Zenith

@Unperverted-Vixen Visual Studio is doing the right thing leaving them there (and not adding them aside from the new page wizard). I don't want my IDE deciding to remove content it thinks I don't need. I'll decide for myself, thank you very much.

CHUDbert

@Carnage said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

Temporary residents get a "samordningsnummer"

Free smörgåsbords! Count me in!

Carnage

@CHUDbert said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

@Carnage said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

Temporary residents get a "samordningsnummer"

Free smörgåsbords! Count me in!

All the surströmming and lutfisk you'd ever want!

HardwareGeek

@Carnage said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

All the surströmming and lutfisk you'd ever want!

I already have that.

brie

@HardwareGeek said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

@Carnage said in Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about using Microsoft Office 2003:

All the surströmming and lutfisk you'd ever want!

I already have that.

But I don't see any surströmm....

ohhhhhhhhh.