[Gllug] Exciting stuff (well I found it so :-)

[Richard Cohen]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Alain Williams wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 04:38:52PM +0100, Richard Cohen wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> >
> > > I was travelling down from Scotland last night and while wandering about
> > > in a service station at about 3am this morning I came across a Traffic
> > > Master update monitor.
> > >
> > > Someone had been fiddling with it as there was an unusual 'box' open on
> > > the screen.
> > >
> > > Upon closer inspection it was a kfm version1  explorer window open.
> >
> > Whereas my local BP station has a little 'Internet access' point in it, and
> > it's been showing an NT 'kernel dump' every time I've been in there since
> > they put it in...
>
> AFAIK: they do run a Linux box in the back office in every station.

They certainly *used* to have an SCO box in the back - because we used it in
marketing material.

My main exposure to Y2K was trying to use a credit card in a BP station in
1998 with an expiry date in 2000, and the card was refues as being out of
date.  00<98 :-)

Cheers
Richard


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