My wife likes the Casino. Being the person with the analytic personality, I don't play the machines, but I bring a book and read while she plays with her $20.00. A couple of the newer machines had a glitch, and being curious. I watched the recovery process.
A) Insert security card into a slot and gain access to the innards. B) Press a switch and powerdown the machine, c) wait 10 seconds d) Power up. While powering up, it became apparent that the operating system posts a lot of messages. One or more had the format /tmp/bugreport/appname/appname.log Gee, it looked like linux to me, the main screen was the console log and bygosh, it felt like linux. Oh yes, Booting appears to be done remotely from a server. It was slower than molasses being poured in January. One could watch the display with a progress gui indicator saying 10%, 15%, etc. Booting appeared to take minutes. It is obviously not Microsoft software. By the way, there are a group of cash dispensers that read the barcode coupon, and provide cash. I have watched these have a blue screen, and definitely you see the windows messages when these are rebooted. You can play the penny machines for free, if you are interested. Just start with five cents, and play pennies. If your balance comes to one cent, check out, and take your one cent coupon to the dispenser machine. It will give you back a nickel for your penny. ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 40 years in IT and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz
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