From: Michael on 4 Feb 2010 14:48 On Feb 1, 8:02 pm, Vladimir Vassilevsky <nos...(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 Consultanthttp://www.abvolt.com Well it could be worse... from the cockpit: ERROR: ENGINES NOT FOUND. SYSTEM HALTED Michael
From: dagmargoodboat on 4 Feb 2010 18:30 On Feb 2, 6:30 am, "TheM" <DontNeedS...(a)test.com> wrote: > "Ban" <bans...(a)web.de> wrote in messagenews:hk8ver$q3s$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > > "TheM" <DontNeedS...(a)test.com> schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:CbT9n.1003$UU2.87823(a)news.siol.net... > >> "Ban" <bans...(a)web.de> wrote in messagenews:hk8h5o$lnf$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > >>> "Vladimir Vassilevsky" <nos...(a)nowhere.com> schrieb im Newsbeitragnews: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. > > >>>> Vladimir Vassilevsky > >>>> DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant > >>>>http://www.abvolt.com > > >>> I went with KLM last year and the same happened, but the crew managed after half an hour. Good films tho, "angels and demons" w. > >>> Tom Hanks. > >>> ciao Ban > > >> Wow, you really call that a good movie? > > >> M > > > consider I'm from Italy > > Fair enough :) > > M Just saw that--could hardly tell it from "The Da Vinci Code." Really-- I kept wondering if we had the wrong DVD. Neither's "Much Ado About Nothing," so to speak, but of the two "The Da Vinci Code" gets the nod. (Ban'll like it too.) -- Cheers, James Arthur
From: Mycelium on 4 Feb 2010 21:03 On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:07:59 -0800 (PST), Greegor <greegor47(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Has anybody worn out any flash memory yet? Nope. No SSD failures yet either.
From: Mycelium on 4 Feb 2010 21:04 On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:48:31 -0800 (PST), Michael <mrdarrett(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Feb 1, 8:02�pm, Vladimir Vassilevsky <nos...(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 Consultanthttp://www.abvolt.com > > >Well it could be worse... from the cockpit: ERROR: ENGINES NOT >FOUND. SYSTEM HALTED > >Michael Could be worse than that... could say "Mass Halted". Ever watch Bugs Bunny fly a plane equipped with a Gremlin?
From: JosephKK on 5 Feb 2010 01:28
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. By track record, the early Airbus 300s and 310s had an excessive landing crash rates due to design vs training problems with the digital flight controls which were very modal. This has since been resolved. |