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MySql Error at 30 thousand ft.
On my recent 3 week holiday trip to Argentina my wife and I flew LAN airlines (Chile). They have this great in-flight video system and on the way to Buenos Aires it worked flawlessly serving up a user selection of videos in multiple languages. I watched the Simpsons movie and nodded off. *click images for hi-res new window
It even had this nifty wired controller that could be used horizontally for gaming as well as to control your video selection.. (see below)
However on the way back from Buenos Aires to Miami, the system froze. After a few minutes of waiting and watching in amusement as the whole plane repeatedly touch their screen. They announced that they were restarting the video system and apologized. Upon reboot the system was still frozen with the addition of 2 lines of overlapping text at the bottom of the screen.
As a web developer/programmer I was amused to see a familiar MySql SELECT error:
Its as if my errors were following me on vacation!
I apologize for the quality, the lighting wasn't ideal and there was a little turbulence. Which further unsettled my slight air-phobia and dark imaginings that somehow flight control would somehow be affected by a misnamed field name and thus we would all crash / burn / die /timeout of this mortal coil. :)
// UPDATE mylife SET status = "dead", WHERE username = "I";
They eventually re-re-started the server and served the beverages. I order 2 glasses of red wine from the bev-cart (i stole my wifey's ) and calmed my nerves and annoyance that I had no video distraction from the turbulence. After a bit the system came up again and worked this time albeit at a snail's pace.
We landed at MIA without further incidents or DROP'ping vital flight control db's .
I imagine this system is some sort of LAMP kiosk. If any1 out there has any inner knowledge of this please post in comments.
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Hey it could have been worse! It could have been a BSOD or a MS SQL error! :-)