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Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
WMD:
Heh, there's a monitor at my school that has the Windows 2000 "this computer is locked" screen burned right into the middle of it. It's visible almost all the time.
Calum:
well, this wasn't visible when i was there in person, so i'm inclined against burn in... hmm. business seems like an odd word to get burnt in in big letters on an autoteller machine though, don't you think?
now i want to see how long this machine can go without getting fixed.
Or maybe one day i will start pushing some buttons on it!
davidnix71:
Too bad you can't zap computers like the old Space Invaders video machines. When I was in college we got free games for a while by zapping the coin slot with the arc from a ZeroStat (which I still have) or by shuffling your feet on the carpet. A good pop got 99 games.
The ZeroStat was for reversing the polarity of a vinyl records to make it easier to remove dirt.
Yeah, I'm old. When I was younger a 45 didn't necessarily refer to a firearm. I've owned shellac records, reel to reel and even had a Radio Shack 8-track RECORDER.
"Now available from KTel Records on vinyl, 8-track and cassette!"
This business with illegal file sharing is the RIAA's fault. Nobody could copy vinyl except to make a tape that would eventually wear out.
Calum:
records are the best
i hope one day apple computer start making applemac compatible record players! (except they'd cost 5 times the normal price)
Calum:
ok, here is tonight's snapshot:
http://www.polytheism.org.uk/pix/easter-road-cash-machine-7.jpg
it's friday night now, so this means at least the whole weekend before it's fixed. i am hoping for it to BSOD by itself before then (but i am aware that with NT this can be a long wait, esp on systems with not much running on them).
This time i pushed some buttons. when i pushed cancel, the help message you see there disappeared, so cancel must be like escape or alt-f4.
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