Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks

Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by Osiris on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:50PM (#24111287)

I built a relatively simple system over 10 years ago that ran on PHP and MySQL. Over the years, the company I built the product for has come back to me to upgrade PHP and MySQL after a security scan. The problem is the software was build for PHP 5.4, and they want it running on the latest (7.4). It doesn't.

I managed to get it running on the latest security release of 7.1 with a few days of work (I had to make code changes in the framework I used that weren't supported in PHP 7 anymore). If they want future security upgrades, it's going to require a even more significant rewrite of the software because it relies on old PHP behaviours that have been removed in recent releases.

So, I completely understand why 20 year old systems would still rely on floppy disks.

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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by jacquesm on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:57PM (#24113898)

I charge my proofreaders a euro every time they miss 'built' spelled as 'built'. It's been a pretty steady money maker, that one. I make a ton of spelling errors as well so who am I to cast that particular stone but the built-with-a-t one seems particular hard to get rid of even when you know about it.

Must be some cognitive blind spot.

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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by robocat on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:09PM (#24114614)

> 'built' spelled as 'built'

Did autocorrect “fix” your intentional misspelling for you?

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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by nix23 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:06AM (#24118544)

>Must be some cognitive blind spot.

Hehe, yeah for the better or the worst ;)

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