• (cs) in reply to CoyneT
    CoyneT:
    In the vein of "Lions and tigers and ..."

    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRING_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_USE_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_MY

    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRI_JESUS_CHRIST_ITS_A_LION_GET_IN_THE_CAR

  • Anon (unregistered)

    Linux easily crashes from graphics problems, if you have a crappy driver. Of course, any driver in any monolithic OS can crash the kernel. I imagine for graphics it's probably some race condition related to the video hardware. I used to get it a lot on my old laptop. My new one hasn't locked up from graphics related issues in quite a long time (unless I use drivers and such checked out from Git, and then I deserve what I get).

    X is a sore point for Linux, really. As a Linux user, part of me dislikes the beating some of you are giving to Linux, but to be honest, X sucks monkey balls. I put up with it, but only grudgingly. Thankfully, the developers are seriously tackling a number of core issues, including cleaning up the driver frameworks, moving hardware access "stuff" into the kernel where it belongs, which will help eliminate many of the types of freeze-ups that can happen if X crashes or malfunctions (leaving the video hardware and keyboard in some wacked out state).

  • (cs) in reply to Poochner
    Poochner:
    It's not "Lenox Mall" it's "Lenox Square." They get real snarky about that.

    It's obviously not "Linux Mall" or "Linux Square", though.

  • (cs)

    The boot screen looks just like my arcade cabinet which runs Gentoo. Of course, my cabinet actually works....

  • Shane (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    Yep you bet - Delta CDG to Atlanta. But for our plane the games were working, everything else not. Actually "Delta Linux crash" brings up a lot of results on the interwebs. Can you say Delta and crash in the same sentence...

  • Doug (unregistered)

    There's clearly a . at the end of the second age of empires path. Why didn't the user try that?

  • David (unregistered) in reply to webrunner

    Maybe if they had other good development tools they wouldn't have had the crash. I prefer Subversion, but CVS is pretty good.

  • immibis (unregistered) in reply to rain
    rain:
    Kederaji:
    hat:
    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRING_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_USE_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL
    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRING_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_QUOTE_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL

    SOME_REALLY_LONG_COMMENT_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_READ_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL

    SOME_REALLY_REALLY_EXTRA_SUPER_LONG_COMMENT_WITH_LOTS_OF_REALLY_VERY_LONG_ADJECTIVES_AND_VERY_VERY_VERY_LONG_HUGE_GIGANTIC_ADVERBS_AND_IF_ANYONE_USES_IT_EXCEPT_ME_THEN_ILL_KILL_THEM_FOR_THAT_THEY_REALLY_SHOULDNT_USE_MY_REALLY_LONG_COMMENT

  • Metal Lord (unregistered) in reply to KenW
    KenW:
    SpeedRacer:
    "Windows in the cockpit"? I think that would not be a good thing, IMHO.

    I hope they have windows in the cockpit. It makes it much easier for them to see things like obstructed runways and such.

    and blue. any pilot likes seeing blue.

  • Storme (unregistered) in reply to rain

    SOME_STRING

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Ilyak
    Ilyak:
    ... if you've fscked your hard drive up to the point c:\program files folder is not writable ...
    ... that is some serious amount of filesystem checking.
  • Paolo G (unregistered) in reply to Chris
    Chris:
    How is not allowing strong passwords a "daily" wtf? I run into this all the time.

    Well, if you run into it all the time, that pretty makes it daily, doesn't it?

    Passenger A: Excuse, Miss. Flight attendant: Yes? Passenger A: My entertainment system is crashing. Flight attendant: Sorry, Sir, I didn't catch that. Passenger A: I said, it's crashing. Passenger B: We're crashing? Passengers C-Z: We gonna crash! <mass panic ensues>

    CAPTCHA: damnum

  • AC (unregistered)

    Well, probably a watchdog is rebooting linux on application crash. Common practice in embedded systems.

  • Thomas Turner (unregistered) in reply to webrunner

    thats the name of the pharmacy... unless that was an intended pun

  • Rev. Spaminator (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    Thats the old Delta Song in-flight system. It is at least four or five years old and using a modified Linux system to provide distributed multimedia. It was a crappy system that someone should have put some effort into post production updates and debugging. Last time I saw that system, (over 3 years ago) I noticed it was using an outdated kernel. I wonder if they appropriately shared their mods with the community at large. Had they done that and kept thing up to date I'm sure their system would have been a lot more stable.

    "Let's hope they have Windows up in the cockpit..."
    I think we can ALL agree by now, most of the time it isn't the OS but the programmer that makes or breaks the system. I think it would be more appropriate to say, "I sure hope these clowns didn't program any of the systems up in the cockpit..."

  • Alex (unregistered) in reply to rain

    Never seen a bigger one than this:

    [image]
  • Nick (unregistered)

    Scotiabank is the same way. I am really uncomfortable with their online banking because they don't allow symbols in their passwords.

  • (cs) in reply to SpeedRacer
    SpeedRacer:
    "Windows in the cockpit"? I think that would not be a good thing, IMHO.
    The cockpit display system I have been working on uses neither Windows nor Linux for 2 good reasons: 1. It is "safety critical", and neither Windows nor Linux are properly certified. 2. It doesn't use x86 architecture processors, but something much more appropriate to an embedded system.
  • Adriano (unregistered)

    To be fair, the page of the online form with the insecure passwords does say "your new password must be between 8 and 12 alphanumeric characters". I wouldn't be surprised to discover that characters like ! aren't accepted.

  • aFlag (unregistered) in reply to Random Name

    The entire machine or the X? Also, I'll take a bet by saying that they probably reset the OS on those systems automatically, not because the program actually crashed the whole system.

    The times I experienced kernel crashes on Windows XP and Linux were when I was using some non-official kernel driver/module.

  • aFlag (unregistered) in reply to Joe Luser

    Also I think it's probably a hard real time system, so then again neither linux or windows are appropriated.

  • prote (unregistered)

    They aren't going to use your typical Linux or Windows solution for the flight system. So don't worry.

    Typically, its something standard, proven, matured, and certified like VxWorks. (Unix-like, Realtime OS). The bits they write ontop of the OS is usually in a program language called Ada.

    Ada is used in flight control systems, missile guidance, finance, and applications involving something extremely critical. ie: It must be near perfect and ridiculously reliable...No crashes, pauses, reboots, buffer overflows, runtime errors, etc.

    There's no need to worry about the entertainment system killing itself. Its on a completely separate system to the flight system. ;)

  • JAlexoid (unregistered)

    Linux restart on a plane. Anyone who had ever been on a long enough flight with that entertainment system, knows that at least once during a flight the multimedia entertainment system restarts. And some of then even display a message saying, that it is going for restart.

  • TBare (unregistered) in reply to rain

    <bad joke> SOME_REALLY_LONG_COMMENT_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_QUOTE_OR_USE_OR_READ_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL </bad joke>

  • Mr. Town (unregistered) in reply to rain
    rain:
    Kederaji:
    hat:
    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRING_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_USE_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL
    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRING_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_QUOTE_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL

    SOME_REALLY_LONG_COMMENT_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_READ_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL

    SOME_REALLY_LONG_COMMENT_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_READ_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL

  • 1024 (unregistered) in reply to immibis
    immibis:
    rain:
    Kederaji:
    hat:
    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRING_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_USE_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL
    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRING_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_QUOTE_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL

    SOME_REALLY_LONG_COMMENT_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_READ_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL

    SOME_REALLY_REALLY_EXTRA_SUPER_LONG_COMMENT_WITH_LOTS_OF_REALLY_VERY_LONG_ADJECTIVES_AND_VERY_VERY_VERY_LONG_HUGE_GIGANTIC_ADVERBS_AND_IF_ANYONE_USES_IT_EXCEPT_ME_THEN_ILL_KILL_THEM_FOR_THAT_THEY_REALLY_SHOULDNT_USE_MY_REALLY_LONG_COMMENT

    SOME_SHORT_STRING

  • Ben Deutsch (unregistered)

    The same thing happened to me on a Song (Delta Airlines) flight, but seat 40a was far from alone! The entire airplane got rebooted up the ass.

  • Ben Deutsch (unregistered) in reply to 1024
    1024:
    immibis:
    rain:
    Kederaji:
    hat:
    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRING_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_USE_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL
    SOME_REALLY_LONG_STRING_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_QUOTE_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL

    SOME_REALLY_LONG_COMMENT_THAT_NOBODY_SHOULD_READ_AND_IF_THEY_DO_OH_WELL

    SOME_REALLY_REALLY_EXTRA_SUPER_LONG_COMMENT_WITH_LOTS_OF_REALLY_VERY_LONG_ADJECTIVES_AND_VERY_VERY_VERY_LONG_HUGE_GIGANTIC_ADVERBS_AND_IF_ANYONE_USES_IT_EXCEPT_ME_THEN_ILL_KILL_THEM_FOR_THAT_THEY_REALLY_SHOULDNT_USE_MY_REALLY_LONG_COMMENT

    SOME_SHORT_STRING

    SOME_SLIGHTLY LONGER STRING

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