I was at Harbor Freight one day last year waiting at the counter while they rebooted the cash register. Everything started to look really familiar - it was running Red Hat 9. How old is that, again? It did come up and complete my purchase, but I was surprised it was running such an old distro.
Curt On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:42 PM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]>wrote: > Michael Chaney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've seen similar on ATMs, and that get scary if it is your banks > > unit. > > > > I have a picture of an ATM at Opryland a couple of weeks ago that was > > having a hardware error forcing Windows to try to boot into safe mode, > > fail, reboot, repeat. I am amazed at someone being stupid enough to > > use Windows as a platform for an ATM, although the issue it was having > > was most likely unrelated to Windows. > > > > Michael > > -- > > Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. > > [email protected] > > http://www.michaelchaney.com/ > > > > Recently, I was pumping gas, and the power went off for a few seconds. > The pump rebooted itself, and I had to wait for two minutes or so of > splash screens and bootup messages (including a couple of error messages) > to scroll by, before I could resume pumping gas. > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not > to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
