Totally OT though this comment may be, it's great news. Last time I flew long haul, the inflight system was some sort of Windows NT based thing... which also crashed regularly and booted veeerrrry slowly. I remember the flight attendants pleading with us at the start of the flight to wait after each press of a key on the remote for the thing to respond because they obviously had found that the cause of crashing was frantic repeated key presses. I was left hoping that the computers that controlled the plane were more robust...
Anyway, Chris let me join the chorus of well wishers for your adventure, and thanks for looking after the meetings for the past while. - David On 3/11/09, Andrew Errington <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, March 11, 2009 07:13, Christopher Sawtell wrote: >> The monthly meeting in the hall is now very much over to people other >> than me. My posting last week explains, so you all know why now. > > > Best of luck, Chris. If you are flying Air New Zealand for any part of > your trip (which I thoroughly recommend) take a look at their in-flight > entertainment system. I recently flew to Korea via Japan, and the long > haul (Auckland to Osaka) was Air New Zealand. It was a comfortable and > pleasant flight with great food. Oh, and the obligatory Linux content is > that the in-flight entertainment system is Linux based (Red Hat to be > precise). You can watch movies and play games, but the only reason I know > it's Linux is that my wife's console crashed and I watched it reboot. The > other 300 consoles seemed to be okay. > > Best wishes, > > Andrew > > > >
