Tag: linux

27 Feb 2008

Light Posting

Apologies for the lack of posting (for the 2.2 peole who care, and the 1 person who noticed). I woke up to my laptop’s hard drive going click-click. It is still ‘functional’ and I have all the important data off of it. However, after having used the same Debian install for almost 8 years, I [...]

14 Sep 2007

Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users

Will Fisher writes “New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing [...]

27 Aug 2007

Airbus 380 To Have Linux In Every Seat

jpatokal writes “Singapore Airlines will be rolling out the A380 superjumbo on October 26th, and a surprise awaits in the seat of every passenger: their personal Linux PC, running Red Hat. In addition to running the in-flight entertainment, passengers can also use a full copy of StarOffice, and there’s a USB slot for importing/exporting documents [...]