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Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« on: 8 February 2006, 03:12 »
Seen near the top of Easter road in Edinburgh. This cash machine has been like this for 3 days, and for all i know it still is!

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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #1 on: 8 February 2006, 03:20 »
Yeah, I've seen quite a few at airports (the arrivial/departure monitors), train stations (only hi-tech ones), and once on an electronic billboard in NYC I think, and you could even see the mouse moving around ... someone trying to fix it frantically :D
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #2 on: 8 February 2006, 03:23 »
You probably should've staying in Edinburgh. There tends to be money in them things. And it's protected by Windows...
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #3 on: 8 February 2006, 03:49 »
Do any of the ATM buttons work?

There was a crashed ATM near my house after Hurricane Wilma - during the power outage, they managed to power up the bank, but the ATM was dead.  There's a photo I took of it on my website (see sig).
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #4 on: 8 February 2006, 04:05 »
Holy shit ... gameboy runs Winblow$ ?!? :eek:... I didn't know that ! Dammit ... everything runs Winblow$ (almost everything)
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #5 on: 8 February 2006, 05:17 »
Why do they even need it to run Windows? They could probably hire someone to make a simple OS for them and every time something goes wrong just wipe the HD with the OSon it and reinstall it.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #6 on: 8 February 2006, 07:56 »
Okay, first off, that Gameboy photo was a joke - when have you ever heard of Windows for Motorola?  ;)  Second, if it'd been me, I would've sprayed the camera from an angle and accessed the icon that says "paycash.exe" for contents.  Just get a trashbag and a pickup truck.  :cool:
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #7 on: 8 February 2006, 20:32 »
well, that's four days and counting it's been out of order like this (possibly longer, i didn't look there before saturday afternoon). now it's opened up some windows and thrown up an error message since yesterday but that's about it.

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http://www.polytheism.org.uk/pix/easter-road-cash-machine-3.jpg
http://www.polytheism.org.uk/pix/easter-road-cash-machine-4.jpg

people think i am really weird when i photograph this cash machine. i think i am going to stop unless it does something really bizarre.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #8 on: 8 February 2006, 20:34 »
Hehe ... they're gonna call the cops on you, saying you're trying to steal PINs :D
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #9 on: 8 February 2006, 20:43 »
to do that, somebody would have to be using the machine! and there's not much chance of that since it's been nonworking since living memory began!
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #10 on: 8 February 2006, 20:57 »
Why do they keep it there then ... they should get rid of it ... or maybe let it stand as an everlasting monument to a marvelous operating system
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #11 on: 8 February 2006, 21:03 »
some one got Win95 to run on a PSP, took something like 30minutes to boot :p
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« Reply #12 on: 8 February 2006, 21:12 »
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some one got Win95 to run on a PSP, took something like 30minutes to boot :p
That was using an emulator (bochs).
Windows won't run natively on anything that isn't an x86 PC (maybe untrue for Windows CE).
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #13 on: 8 February 2006, 21:24 »
Last week I was out with a friend when he was trying to draw money out of a machine and it just rebooted swallowing his card. I wasn't suprized to see the Microsoft Windows NT 4.5 logo when it rebooted, "fuck Bill Gates and Micro$haft Winblow$" I cursed to which my friend replied "you're just jealous of him for his sucess", so I told him why MS are bad and he said "everything crashes and besides there are far worse companies around like the oil companies. I give up MS are  part of our culture now and it's getting worse. :rolleyes:
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #14 on: 8 February 2006, 21:39 »
And it's running Win98. Thank god it's not ME. I still have horrible memories of that.
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