power outage

[Carlos Macedo Gomes]

Speaking of rebooting embedded Linux systems, last fall I was returning from
a vacation and while passengers were boarding the plane the entertainment
systems on the back of the seats were rebooted.  During POST one could see
that they were running Linux :-).
I took a few photos of the reboot and put them on Flickr  under Creative
Commons licensing if anyone wants to reuse:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmgomes/sets/72157611847179809/

The entertainment systems had a ton of features and are similar to the
systems found on Jet Blue (including timeshifted cable/satellite programs)
and had some nice features like free recently released movies (I saw Dark
Knight and Hancock that night), music player w/ user managed playlists, and
active GPS maps.  The kicker for me was a live camera on the nose of the
plane showing the action from two viewpoints (straight forward and towards
the ground) which was very nice for landing and takeoffs.  The camera was
disabled for a short time around touch down and lift-off times but you got
to see the approaches and taxi.
thanks,
C.G.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:

> Most of the video poker machines at the bar are Linux based. I've seen
> several reboot, all on linux.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Joe <lists at joefleming.net> wrote:
>
>> Blackbox isn't a distro, it's a window manager. Still, sounds pretty
>> awesome, in an extremely geeky sort of way (just the way I like it).
>> Only OS screens I've even seen in casinos before was in Vegas on some
>> random terminals and such.... and it was all windoze :(
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>> mike havens wrote:
>> > I was in a casino down here in florida and there happened to be a
>> problem
>> > with the power. All of the machines shut off and then rebooted. First
>> they
>> > posted and then the Phoenix logo appeared (the computer thingy.... not
>> the
>> > cities logo). Then, to my wonder, Lilo started and after the boot
>> process I
>> > found out what their distro was; it was Blackbox.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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