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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #30 on: 9 February 2006, 23:59 »
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.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #31 on: 10 February 2006, 01:19 »
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!
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #32 on: 10 February 2006, 01:41 »
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.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #33 on: 10 February 2006, 13:32 »
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)
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #34 on: 10 February 2006, 23:44 »
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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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #35 on: 11 February 2006, 04:16 »
So nobody was suspicious of you typing on the thing ?
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #36 on: 11 February 2006, 05:48 »
You guys crack me up with your suggestion that they "install linux" on their ATMs. Those ATM's are most likely made by Diebold, and the banks have no choice over what OS goes on them. Diebold used to use OS2 but switched to Windows when support for OS2 went away. I beleive the new ATM's by Deibold run XP Embedded.

For the banks to put linux on their ATM's they would have to buy new ATMs from a different vendor that uses linux (if one exists), which would be very expensive.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #37 on: 11 February 2006, 12:07 »
I don't know bout cash machines but Linux is becomming very popular as an embedded OS, it was used in a project at work and it was great. I was dissapointed that I didn't have the opportunity to become involved with the software side, - I could've learnt a lot more about Linux. :(
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #38 on: 11 February 2006, 17:11 »
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For the banks to put linux on their ATM's they would have to buy new ATMs from a different vendor that uses linux (if one exists), which would be very expensive.
So I can get Linux on my iPod running, and these banks can't get Linux on their ATMs?

I read an article about the AIB (Allied Irish Bank) starting to get their branches hooked up to GNU/Linux. I'm not sure if that means their ATMs. Their issue with Windows is having to fuck with code when new, supposadly expected to be more secure (I suspect that's why they'd "upgrade"), Windows releases are made.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #39 on: 11 February 2006, 17:42 »
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You guys crack me up with your suggestion that they "install linux" on their ATMs. Those ATM's are most likely made by Diebold, and the banks have no choice over what OS goes on them. Diebold used to use OS2 but switched to Windows when support for OS2 went away. I beleive the new ATM's by Deibold run XP Embedded.

For the banks to put linux on their ATM's they would have to buy new ATMs from a different vendor that uses linux (if one exists), which would be very expensive.

If they used to run OS2 then there's absolutely no reason why they won't run Linux.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #40 on: 11 February 2006, 18:26 »
For all we know this might not be an OS problem it could be due to shitty hardware.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #41 on: 11 February 2006, 18:38 »
Apparently the two of you missed his point.  Of course they could run Linux, but that requires that the ATM vendor use Linux.  The bank itself doesn't do anything to the ATMs.

EDIT: New page...I'm referring to P.P. and H.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #42 on: 11 February 2006, 18:44 »
For all we know someone coulda forgot to start the application...
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #43 on: 11 February 2006, 23:32 »
From the pciture it looks like Windows is humming along just fine. What's missing is the app that does the ATM stuff.

Anyhow, linux is being used in ATMs. I saw an article that talked about a bank in Brazil that switched their ATMs from DOS 6.2 to linux.
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Re: Cash Machines In Windows Seize Up!
« Reply #44 on: 12 February 2006, 03:03 »
Good for them.
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