Please wait - I need to reboot

Peter Duniho wrote:

Funny how you worded that. I don't know what your intent was, but it sure
reads like the "mob" you describe is the pro-Windows side, which in fact all
of the stupid replies are actually going to be (already are) from the
anti-Windows side.

I read it as if he meant "Windows vs. the world" mob. Which also parses out to
be something different from what was probably meant.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.

In article ,
Wolfgang Kemper wrote:
Is this true? The last Airbus I was in had a LINUX based entertainment
system. (I know because they had to reboot my station)
Why should they mix operating systems?


Why not? The cabin enviornmental controls are designed for Airbus,
the entertainment systems are purchased by the airlines.

John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

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Peter Duniho wrote:

Funny how you worded that. I don't know what your intent was, but it
sure reads like the "mob" you describe is the pro-Windows side, which in
fact all of the stupid replies are actually going to be (already are)
from the anti-Windows side.

I read it as if he meant "Windows vs. the world" mob. Which also parses
out to be something different from what was probably meant.

Yah, I meant the anti-Windows horde with their blatherings.

In a previous article, "Hilton" said:
I had no idea that a pre-taxi step was "Computer: REBOOT".

http://zeeb.at/oops/WindowsPanel.jpg


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

The other day as I was boarding a new A320 I noticed the first officer
was typing on a laptop that was mounted in front of him (of course the
Airbus has no yoke so there is more room).

-Robert

Windows CE is old. I run Windows SE in my cockpit.

-Robert

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:25:36 GMT, Michelle P
wrote:

I hate to say it but Windows controls the cabin functions (heat/ac,
lights) on the airbus's.
Michelle

Jimbob wrote:


Here's the scenerio I see already.

My niece (The little spyware magnet) is surfing the net on the 777's
In Flight Entertainment system. She downloads a trojan that requires
the Captain to "Punch the Monkey" every 60 seconds so he can see the
ILS approach display.


Oh, the horror.....


Jim

http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org

Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, "Hilton" said:

I had no idea that a pre-taxi step was "Computer: REBOOT".


http://zeeb.at/oops/WindowsPanel.jpg


This triggered an interesting idea: the ability to ask ATC to run a
diagnostic on your onboard computer. This is like asking for a weather
check, radio check... computer check.

This triggered an interesting idea: the ability to ask ATC to run a
diagnostic on your onboard computer. This is like asking for a weather
check, radio check... computer check.

What if they find your porn?


Jim

http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org

"J" == Jimbob writes:

J Dear god, please don't let Windows CE make it into the cockpit.

Windows NT made it onboard a Navy guided missile cruiser with these
results:

http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm

The US Navy's so-call "Smart Ship technology" left the Aegis missile
cruiser USS Yorktown dead in the water off the coast of Cape Charles,
Va. for several hours. The shutdown of the ship's propulsion was
credited to a database overflow in a Windows NT system. The crash was
caused by the inability of the OS to properly handle division by
zero. Said Anthony DiGiorgio, a civilian engineer with the Atlantic
Fleet Technical Support Center, "Using Windows NT, which is known to
have some failure modes, on a warship is similar to hoping that luck
will be in our favor." The Navy is still expected to spend $138
million expanding the "Smart Ship" program to the entire Aegis class,
and to other ships in the fleet. (Government Computer News, 13 July
1998)