From: Capt. Cave Man on
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:06:13 +1100, Sylvia Else
<sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote:

>
>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.


Bwuahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaahahahaha!
From: JosephKK on
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:02:21 -0600, 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
>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.
>
>
>Vladimir Vassilevsky
>DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
>http://www.abvolt.com

And how many of those have been posted as compared to similar conditions
M$ systems failing? 10,000:1? Try stupid operators suck instead.
From: Sylvia Else on
On 3/02/2010 5:44 AM, 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.
>

Airbuses have been very safe. Just because there was a crash of one a
while back doesn't make them unsafe.

Boeings have crashed as well.

Sylvia.
From: Archimedes' Lever on
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:08:20 +1100, Sylvia Else
<sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote:

>On 3/02/2010 5:44 AM, 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.
>>
>
>Airbuses have been very safe. Just because there was a crash of one a
>while back doesn't make them unsafe.
>
>Boeings have crashed as well.
>
>Sylvia.


You really do not understand the "Ford / Chevy" thing do you?
From: Greegor on
Has anybody worn out any flash memory yet?