[Gllug] Windows Petrol Pump

[Tim Gray]

Jonathan Dye >I've seen BSOD on 
Jonathan Dye >Rail Station information boards

Heh, the whole announcement system runs of Win98. I'm not sure if its
because of Window's bad thread management or lousy BR software but the
audio announcements stutter when the local machines receive updated time
table information, its gets quite funny when there are big delays on the
trains[1].

I've also been able to get into the control panel in a Nat West ATM
machine, there was some random pop-up window saying an error had
occurred (no mouse or enter) so I tapped 'ok' on the screen. When the
error was generated it minimised the ATM program so I had access to a
stripped down desktop. NCR (the ATM manufactures) must have been a bit
lax when installing NT ;)

[1] ok, its not *that* funny, but its better than listening to a
face-less machines making personal apologies about trains running late
with random faults, grrrr.

Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk 
> [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk] On Behalf Of Jonathan Dye
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:18 AM
> To: 'gllug at linux.co.uk'
> Subject: RE: [Gllug] Windows Petrol Pump
> 
> 
> Ian Scott wrote:
> >> It seems incredible to me that anyone would use
> >> something as unstable,
> >> or over-
> >> the-top, as Windows to run a simple Petrol Pump !!
> > 
> > Last time I flew from Stanstead, all the information
> > screens were displaying a windows error message box
> > (along the lines of 'Oh dear, it's all gone horribly
> > wrong. Press OK to reboot').  Doesn't inspire
> > confidence!
> > 
> > It's amazing how much does run windows.  I've seen the same 
> screen on 
> > broken ATMs.
> 
> It amazing how to think that we only know about these ones 
> because we've seen BSOD, I wonder how many other things run 
> Windows where we havn't seen BSOD.  To add to the list, I've 
> seen BSOD on Rail Station information boards and on the 
> Ticket machines.
> 
> JD




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