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  1. Re:And will the standard rates apply? by hawaiian717 · · Score: 1 · on Rent an iPad For Inflight Entertainment

    The first class suite aboard a Singapore Airlines A380, perhaps?

  2. openoffice or microsoft office by nri · · Score: 1 · on Airbus 380 To Have Linux In Every Seat

    the picture link seems to indicate ms office.
    http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/exp/ entertainment/screens.jsp
    so which is it ?

  3. Re:What is this for? by jpatokal · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Airbus 380 To Have Linux In Every Seat
    The inflight entertainment controller has a control pad for moving the mouse pointer and a miniature QWERTY keypad on the back. Sounds fairly painful for any serious writing, but better than nothing.

    Cheers,
    -j.

  4. StarOffice ? by nsebban · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Airbus 380 To Have Linux In Every Seat

    Despite what is said above, the Singapore Airlines website doesn't mention StarOffice, but MSOffice. Using Wine maybe ?

  5. StarOffice or Microsoft Office? by Grond · · Score: 4, Informative · on Airbus 380 To Have Linux In Every Seat

    TFA says that the systems run Microsoft Office, not StarOffice. Unfortunately, their video doesn't show any office software, so it's hard to tell. Maybe someone will hack up a version of portable OpenOffice capable of running on the systems.

  6. Not being on Lufthansa is nothing to cry about by raju1kabir · · Score: 1, Informative · on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air

    Lufthansa is one of the most wretched airlines in the sky (unless you're in the front of the plane), so don't cry too much. Basically Lufthansa is a European-style low-cost carrier (zero service, zero amenities, treat the customers like something that got stuck on their shoes on the way into work) with high-cost carrier fares (and a slightly lucrative business and first-class trade that has nothing to do with their horrid economy class offering).

    Addicted to net access though I am, I'd take Northwest with a good book over Lufthansa with wifi any day of the week. At least I'll have someplace to put my legs, will be served something approximating edible food, and I won't be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from being yelled at by the flight attendants for 12 hours.

    Anyway, good airlines, like Singapore Air also offer Conexion and fly from the US to Japan (e.g., SQ11, LAX-NRT), so you can have it both ways.

    -raju1kabir, 50000 miles in 2005 and counting