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From: "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/10
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Jerry Maple wrote in message <385036b8.8552818@nntp.cig.mot.com>...
>On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:40:19 +0300, "Vladimir Olensky"
><vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>>But I should admit that I've seen once such accident in one
>>remote place not a long time ago . Wall clock with
>>electrical mechanism which was not placed in the protective
>>box was spoiled by cockroaches.
>>
>
>Many years ago I worked for Raytheon's Missile Systems Division
>in Massachusetts.  We tested Hawk missile system shelters on
>a hilltop in Pelham, NH, where the radars could get a good look
>at the traffic flying into Logan airport.  One of the "debugging"
>problems we had there was that mice and rats would get into the
>shelters and chew the insulation off the shelter wiring.  They seemed
>to prefer the red insulation to the black.  Red usually carried a
>supply voltage, while black was usually a ground.  Made for a
>lot of fun finding the power supply short-circuits.


That's true.
  As "bugs" are major software problem  rats are common problem
for ground and building cabling systems if they  are not  protected
properly  against that small animals.


Regards,
Vladimir Olensky