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In-flight Crash

April 3, 2007 - Aeroplanes , Linux , Travel - by admin - 2 Comments

Hugh Thompson relates his story of how he managed to crash the in-flight entertainment system with a few well placed keypresses. He goes into the detail behind it, and the amusing outcome of his test case. An amusing read 🙂

R/C Cam

April 3, 2007 - Aeroplanes , Cool things , Modelling - by admin - No Comments

This author has set up his model aeroplane in such a way that he now has a gyroscopically controlled camera mounted inside the cockpit. With a decent enough VR headset, and a wireless video system, he’s managed to get a cockpit seat inside the aeroplane, and make it seem like […]

More Zap Bugs

April 2, 2007 - Asterisk , Bugs , Linux , Things that annoy Kyle , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

In an astounding piece of ignorance, the Digium bug tracking managers have closed off bugs 8763 and 9081. Both bugs are clearly reproducable, clearly showstoppers, and clearly a big problem, yet they refer the original reporter to Digium support and close off the bug as “No change required”. Now, if […]

BabyBen

April 2, 2007 - Cool things , Friends , Life - by admin - No Comments

A big congratulations and well done to Ben & Heather Thorp. At 7.23pm April 1st 2007 Mira Hope Thorp entered this world. Hope everything works out well, and the future is everything you dreamt of 😀

Weekend

April 2, 2007 - Cars , Life - by admin - No Comments

What a weekend that was. On Saturday we went over to Charterhall for a Border Ecosse Car Club rally stage. Having never been to Charterhall, it was surprising to see how fast they get up to on the old runways and taxiways. This, ultimately, was to be my downfall, literally, […]