Staroffice, Linux on Singapore Airlines - the cradle to grave project manager behind it

"Singapore Airlines is offering access to Sun's StarOffice 8 office productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Sun's proprietary version of OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircraft's Linux server and is accessed via a seat-back terminal at each passenger's seat, according to Sun.
"Thanks to new USB ports embedded in the armrest of each chair (near the headphone jack), passengers now can use a USB key (aka thumb drive)--or other portable drive--to access their documents, spreadsheets, and presentation files from software running on the plane's Linux server..."
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My first ever post on work, its one of those things you really want to just talk about.
Yup, been working on this project since 2004, and being binded in an NDA, I'm sworn to secrecy....but I guess I can tell a bit more about it now.. :)

It has been a challenging project, and the scale of getting such a complex Application to run on an "embedded" system certainly posed very interesting issues. Well, I'm not here to discuss this today. So just wanna sit back and enjoy the articles.


Here's one from the ever popular Digg.com:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/StarOffice_Linux_fly_high_on_Singapore_Airlines



Couple more links:
http://bigblog.com/linux/staroffice-takes-to-the-skies-955726932.html
http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/111/5/news/18166

Synergy - KVM no more!

Being a person who uses multiple OS (MacOSX, Linux and Windows) running on different PCs with different Displays to do the job, it has always been a pain to have a keyboard and mouse for each system, and not being able to fluidly move across the different system OS.
Well, if you have the same problem as me, frat no more -> Synergy

It allows one of the computers to be the "server", and then with the right amount of configuration you, can seamlessly move your pointer and input across the different OS and screens with a SINGLE keyboard and mouse! It basically uses IP, so as long as you have your PCs connected on the same network. Viola! You're all set.