[Gllug] Windows Petrol Pump

[Formi]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Pete Ryland wrote:

> I had an hour to kill at Heathrow once,

 What?, How many goats did you have to sacrifice to achieve that?


>so I decided to count the number of
> BSoDs on the check-in monitors.  Of the couple of hundred screens, there
> were in the order of about 5% either blue screened or telling me that it was
> now safe to turn my computer off.  Pretty disgusting since the purpose of
> the screens is the very simple task of indicating which queue belongs to
> which airline.
>
> Pete
>

 Last Decemeber I spent 5 hours waiting for a plane leaving at 6am, there
was a bunch of canadians with a couple of Titaniums, and some sort of
sound systems, playing 3 movies in a row.

All with just 2 batteries, they got quite a big audience. And obviously
some security moron pointed out that movies were not meant to be shown in
public places.

Nevertheless a nice way of killing time.

Some bloke running XP on a "big" Dell laptop was laught at when his
machine crashed and he shouted at it, he probably felt very afterwards...

The touch screen points at the job centres run windows, at the begining
you could just crash them by fingering them fast.... The back end database
was usually as stable as the clients.

Enjoy.


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