Technik News» Aviation http://www.technik-news.de Das Blog zu IT, Mobilfunk & Internet Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:36:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 My Boeing 767 runs Linux, and yours? http://www.technik-news.de/2006/08/20/my-boeing-767-runs-linux-and-yours/ http://www.technik-news.de/2006/08/20/my-boeing-767-runs-linux-and-yours/#comments Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:24:52 +0000 admin http://tech.am/?p=90 This was seen on a Boeing 767 while en route from Las Vegas to Atlanta, the flight being operated by Delta. Apparently, many people were having problems with their purchased movies, and so the crew decided to reset the system, provoking a nicely familiar sight.

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Linux on a plane

Now we could all start making jokes about nmapping the plane, or trying to run Asterisk off a USB drive plugged into the management console, which by the way was accessible to anyone who wandered to the toilet and happened to look left. It had a nice big “Reset all” button too, two USB ports, and a gigabit etherenet RJ45. I just hope they don’t run a kernel with some remote_crash_plane() buffer overflow exploit…

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