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From: Capt. Cave Man on 2 Feb 2010 17:14 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:44:44 GMT, nico(a)puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote: >Vladimir Vassilevsky <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > >> >>http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG >> >>This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No movies > ^^^^^^ >You shouldn't be flying in a French airplane. I avoid flying with an >Airbus if I can. I almost said the same thing.
From: Paul Hovnanian P.E. on 2 Feb 2010 16:54 Nico Coesel wrote: > > Vladimir Vassilevsky <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > > > > >http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG > > > >This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No movies > ^^^^^^ > You shouldn't be flying in a French airplane. I avoid flying with an > Airbus if I can. The passenger entertainment system isn't built by Airbus. Each airline specifies what they want and it may very well be the same manufacturer that builds systems for some Boeing planes. -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul(a)Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes." (If you can read this, you're overeducated.)
From: Bitrex on 2 Feb 2010 18:33 Sylvia Else wrote: > On 2/02/2010 3:10 PM, Martin Riddle wrote: >> "Vladimir Vassilevsky"<nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message >> news:X_WdnYGo4ddZPvrWnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>> >>> http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG >>> >>> This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No >>> movies for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of >>> rebooting it for an hour and a half was kind of entertaining :-) BTW, >>> the TV remote control had some bugs as well. >>> >> It's great when it works, if you get that far. but, its very easy for >> the average Joe to break. > > In this application, booting the system off a DVD drive, and having two > drives (or two computers), and spare boot DVDs would seem the way to go. > Nothing like unwritable media for guaranteeing that things don't get > stuffed up after they're working (provided the BIOS settings are left > alone). > > The failure to find an ext2 filesystem on a loopback device doesn't > really sound to me like an application problem. > > But I'm not sympathetic to the subject line premise, having spent three > days recovering from the mess that occurred after letting Windows XP do > one of its overly frequent security updates - it would no longer boot - > and my reinstall attempts failed as well due to Windows XP in its pre > SP1 form being incapable of driving my present hardware (that took a > while to realise, because it kept looking like a HDD problem or > motherboard problem). > > Sylvia. One of the advantages of Windows 7 and Vista is the built in ability to save a complete system image and restore directly from the install disc, a la Norton Ghost. Windows XP is really getting to be a dinosaur compared to Windows 7 and some of the Linux distros, and I think that if one absolutely has to run it it's best consigned to a VM, unless there is some particular piece of hardware that is essential for the machine's purpose and doesn't work with the VM passthrough.
From: Ban on 2 Feb 2010 22:07 "Paul Hovnanian P.E." <Paul(a)Hovnanian.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4B689F30.C9538CB4(a)Hovnanian.com... > Nico Coesel wrote: >> >> Vladimir Vassilevsky <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG >> > >> >This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No movies >> ^^^^^^ >> You shouldn't be flying in a French airplane. I avoid flying with an >> Airbus if I can. > > The passenger entertainment system isn't built by Airbus. Each airline > specifies what they want and it may very well be the same manufacturer > that builds systems for some Boeing planes. > > -- In fact I was in an MD11, certainly it was outfitted only lately and the same happened. It seems to be related to the carrier not the plane.
From: Sylvia Else on 3 Feb 2010 00:06
On 3/02/2010 12:09 AM, Capt. Cave Man wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:16:54 +1100, Sylvia Else > <sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote: > >> On 2/02/2010 3:10 PM, Martin Riddle wrote: >>> "Vladimir Vassilevsky"<nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message >>> news:X_WdnYGo4ddZPvrWnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>>> >>>> http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG >>>> >>>> This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No >>>> movies for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of >>>> rebooting it for an hour and a half was kind of entertaining :-) BTW, >>>> the TV remote control had some bugs as well. >>>> >>> It's great when it works, if you get that far. but, its very easy for >>> the average Joe to break. >> >> In this application, booting the system off a DVD drive, and having two >> drives (or two computers), and spare boot DVDs would seem the way to go. > > Bullshit. Allways a compelling argument that one. Pehaps that's why so many people use it. Solid state drives or regular old hard drives. > > >> Nothing like unwritable media for guaranteeing that things don't get >> stuffed up after they're working (provided the BIOS settings are left >> alone). > > That's what boot volumes and the like are for. Connection OS is not > from an optical disc. At the end of the day, any medium that is capable of being written can be written in error, or as the result of a malicious act. Short of physically removing the write circuitry from a HDD, you cannot obviate the possibility that the data on the disk will be corrupted in a way that is not subsequently detected by the hardware, but instead manifests as strange software behaviour. > >> >> The failure to find an ext2 filesystem on a loopback device doesn't >> really sound to me like an application problem. > > It was still booting, but the volume could not be found, so it sounds > like a failed external storage server has failed. > >> But I'm not sympathetic to the subject line premise, having spent three >> days recovering from the mess that occurred after letting Windows XP do >> one of its overly frequent security updates > > You come in the group and act overly uneducated in the computing realm, > so what is different? > >> - it would no longer boot - >> and my reinstall attempts failed as well due to Windows XP in its pre >> SP1 form being incapable of driving my present hardware (that took a >> while to realise, because it kept looking like a HDD problem or >> motherboard problem). > > You and your IT dept has never heard of slipstreaming? Jeez, you can > even DL slipstreamed discs with the most recent SP built in. Your > specialized drivers as well (if needed). My IT dept? > You one of those "re-install everything, hopelessly fail and blame it > on Redmond" twits, aren't ya? Where did I say I was blaming Microsoft? Do you think that "after" means "as a consequence of" ? Sylvia. |