Planes, Computers

Hiked a little over 4km to see Poland's largest air museum, which is free on Monday. Unfortunately i got there very late due to a mishap with some bad Chinese/Vietnamese food, and only had 30 minutes to shoot as much as i could before closing time. There were a variety of Soviet and Polish aircraft, and even a couple US, UK and German planes (older, WWII era). I saw nothing that made it stand out other than the quantity - there was one large hangar full of planes and the outside field had a couple rows of old fighter planes. None of them looked to be in pristine condition, and i didn't see a fantastic find, like a downed F-117 or the Enola Gay, but perhaps i don't realise the rarity of what i was seeing. The only other people there was a school tour, looked to be 13 year olds.

I think it's funny that on my first day in Krakow i walk 1.5 hours to an air museum before seeing the traditional castles or art museums in the area, but i have yet to make it to the Yankee Air Museum so close to where i live. I did check my email before venturing out.

A lot of the net cafes in Prague use linux. Even the free net access at the hotel i stayed at was run on a debian-based system (the others used fedora). A couple were using W98 and W2K, but i was told that linux is quit popular with the net cafes. It looked like most of them were set up to discard changes upon reboot, and they seemed to be running recent versions of software, implying either an auto-patch mechanism set up, or some a person-service that did this for the places. The only place i've been to in Krakow uses WinXP; i'll have to check out some other places tomorrow.

I wonder if someone sells a packaged linux that provides these services, or if there's a free distro out there that does all this already. Doesn't seem that it would be that difficult to set up an OpenBSD install cd to be a kiosk-type workstation, but perhaps browser plugin issues would prevent this from happening.