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More than 40 passengers ran riot on a Thomas Cook flight from London Gatwick to Cuba, with one trying to open the emergency exit in mid-flight.

On the return flight on December 30, the same group were again drunk and 17 were stopped from reboarding for the second leg of their trip at Cuba's Varadero airport.

Police met their flight at Gatwick and Thomas Cook is investigating events with a view to a possible complaint to police.

Last year we had looked at The Greatest Linux Innovations Of 2007, and as this year ends, we have compiled a similar list of what we believe were some of the greatest Linux innovations or achievements of 2008. Among the innovations named this year were KDE 4, NetworkManager 0.7, new hardware companies standing behind open-source support, and the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix.

Below is our 2008 list with the highlights being listed in no particular order...

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As you may have heard, Ubuntu is leaping from desktop computers all the way to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Although Ubuntu Server Edition 8.10 on Amazon EC2 remains in beta, the Amazon relationship could energize Canonical's server strategy, WorksWithU believes. Here's why.

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For many, migrating to Linux is a rite of passage that equates to a thing of joy. For others, it's a nightmare waiting to happen. It's wonderful when it's the former; it's a real show stopper when it's the latter.

But that nightmare doesn't have to happen, especially when you know, first hand, the most common mistakes new Linux administrators make. This article will help you avoid those mistakes by laying out the most typical Linux missteps. 

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KWordQuiz, KVocTrain, and other KDE-based programs use the KVTML file format for their data files. The format is just a fairly simple XML format but, unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything available to convert a text file to this format. So, once again, AWK to the rescue.

While I was extracting data from a fairly convoluted HTML file which required some more awk, the generic idea was to take some easy-to-make text format and build the needed KVTML file. I decided to use one line per record with a "|" as the field separator. There is nothing magic about using this character-you just need something that does not appear in the data itself.

My "knowledge" of the KVTML format comes from creating a file with KWordQuit and then taking a look at it. I don't really understand with rows and columns is used for but it doesn't seem important. Without further ado, here is the awk program.

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