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Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---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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Therefore we should fight our "culture", for it is evil.
worker201:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---he said "everything crashes" :rolleyes:
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I can't believe how ridiculous people are. If your apartment "crashed" on a regular basis, you'd be all over the landlord, possibly suing him. If your car "crashed" on a regular basis you'd be leaving shoe prints all over your mechanic's ass. But if a computer crashes, well, that's just how it goes. What bullshit! Stand up for your rights as a consumer!
Aloone_Jonez:
Yeah I know tell me about it, people just assume computers are unstable and they don't even consider that the software is more of a problem.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Windows won't run natively on anything that isn't an x86 PC (maybe untrue for Windows CE).
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Windows NT ran on other platforms up until Windows 2000 where it became x86 only.
--- Quote from: cymon ---And it's running Win98. Thank god it's not ME. I still have horrible memories of that.
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No it was Windows NT 4.5 which is actually the better and more stable from of Windows, so I was suprized to see it crash.
davidnix71:
I've seen a bank atm reboot on a Saturday following a power outage, but they were using OS 2. If the cameras wren't on me I could have held down some keys and gotten into the bios. It was Phoenix 6.02, same as my eMachine. It would have been fun to see if the bios has test features like money dispensing.
I went into the bank a few days later and told the teller they should fire whoever was in charge of security, because they failed to suppress the boot screen. I stood there for almost 5 minutes watching all the stuff go past. When I mentioned that they used Warp for an OS the woman behind me in line laughed, because she knew how old that was. It's so old, IBM is has since dropped support for it.
Bank of America used to have an attached atm in a branch near here that ran Win2000 and had a touch screen. That thing had a mind of it's own. I complained to a teller that it did things on it's own sometimes and she said she knew. She said it was "hateful." Maybe there really was a Ghost in the Machine.
worker201:
--- Quote from: davidnix71 ---Bank of America used to have an attached atm in a branch near here that ran Win2000 and had a touch screen. That thing had a mind of it's own. I complained to a teller that it did things on it's own sometimes and she said she knew. She said it was "hateful." Maybe there really was a Ghost in the Machine.
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Totally bizarre:
I was just watching season 1 of "X-Files", and there's an episode called "Ghost in the Machine", about some operating system that is so intelligent it becomes AI. But also, there was an episode called "Shadows" which featured a ghost that got photographed by an ATM security camera when it was killing somebody. Man that show is kinda freaky sometimes, especially the episode "Eve" - I had nightmares about that one.
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled program.
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