[ale] Linux inside

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 07:21:12 EDT 2025


Hahaha!

-- 
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
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On Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 1:00 AM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> That's when you stand up, pull out your mini-keyboard and portable mini
> LCD and exclaim "It's a Unix system, I know this!"
>
> Right?
>
> Or is that just for fighting dinosaurs?
>
> On 2025-10-07 08:58, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
> > On 10/6/25 18:42, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> >>
> >> It depresses me when the in-flight entertainment crashes and I watch
> >> the Linux stuff go by when it reboots.
> >
> > If they can't get the movies working on international flights, be
> > certain to call and complain after the flight.  Happened about 20
> > minutes into a flight to Europe. Don't remember the exact number of FFM
> > they gave me as "compensation", but I think it was 25K, but it may have
> > been 15K. I don't recall which. I always pre-load a few audio books so I
> > can rest my eyes on long flight, but still be entertained enough if
> needed.
> >
> > The only "fix" the crew can attempt is to reboot the entire system,
> > nothing else.
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