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- timusca, on 10/11/2007, -2/+65@aussieNickuss
I used to work for Diebold (unfortunately)... while it is true that the newer ATM's run on Windows XP, it is a stripped down version and you shouldn't be worried about using your ATM card. Although occassionally, I played Pinball on an ATM I was fixing. For some reason, they didn't take it out of the software...
Also, ATMs that are made by NCR also run on Windows XP. About the only ones that don't are the crappy gas station ATMs made by Triton. Those, you should be worried about... the software is ***** at best.
Older ATMs run on OS/2. And by old, I mean more than 5 years. - mpcamer, on 10/11/2007, -6/+47Would you trust your credit card with one of those..?
- secretwhistle, on 10/11/2007, -4/+42Well... not at that point, no.
- DeskFlyer, on 10/11/2007, -6/+32Better than seeing this, I suppose: http://i15.tinypic.com/5xzaypi.jpg
:O - subject117, on 10/11/2007, -4/+30Why do people always think this is a Windows problem? BSOD's are stop errors, USUALLY caused by hardware.
- Buttercup, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24at all the shell stations around san diego sometime earlier this year, they started putting new screens that blast advertisements at you while you fill your tank.
I find that by lifting and putting the hose nozzle in and out a few times a second crashes it fairly quickly. - MiamiBwoy, on 10/11/2007, -5/+29Looks like they should have gone with the iPump instead
- aussieNickuss, on 10/11/2007, -15/+29Most ATM's run on windows....I feel uneasy each time I use them.
- Ricapar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11@DeskFlyer
While that is pretty funny, it's a really obvious photoshop = - nextag82, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13ooOoO...so thats why gas prices are so high!
- kupa, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9why is everyone so surprised that the most used OS might be used to run other computer-based things? Haven't these BSODs been around long enough? At airports, gas stations, atms, etc... Wasn't there some chick who used an ATM XP machine to open up paint and play around?
"oh noes, its widoze, omfg i can't believe it"
newsflash: Windows has been running on things from ATMs, Gas Pumps, Kiosks, to Heavy Machinery and other wierd stuff you wouldn't think of. - bigbadgoat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8@effektz
that "BSOD" on the PSP isn't a BSOD! Its the initial boot welcome screen, and essentially says thanks for buying a PSP in like 9 different langauges - Skooma714, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I've seen them on ATMs, and arcade machines
- alephnull01, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Brits call it a petrol pump because petrol pumps pump a variety of fuels. You can buy diesel, unleaded or 'super' unleaded (different octane numbers) from a petrol pump!
A gas pump pumps a gas right? Oh wait gasoline is a LIQUID!
/tease - tetranz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Comical because ... ?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5oh come on now, macs dont crash... pfft *sarcasm*
actaully macs dont usually crash (as in error out), they lock down to hard the mouse stops responding, no errors, nothing, if you are lucky you get the pinwheel of death.
do macs even tell you what went wrong? or do they 1) lock up hard 2) tell you to restart immediatly 3) pinwheel?
at least you can figure it out with windows, bad ram address, unreadable sectors on hdd, IO errors, etc. - danakin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"Macs don't get cryptic error messages" -Mac Guy from ad
Yeah. They're even worse because they give you absolutely no information when they do crash. - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3No matter what OS you use, there are still people out there who can mess it up and make it crash because they don't know what they're doing (or they know enough to THINK they know what they're doing, they're even more dangerous!).
I can get Windows XP to run for 3 years straight without needing a format or reinstall, no spyware, no viruses, no serious crashes (except for the occasional poorly written application which locks up, 99% of the time I can kill the process though). And yet I know people who need a technician once a month to clean up their Windows XP installation because of all the problems. One day they can't get their email, the next day they can't play a particular game. The next day their printer doesn't work. The day after that their printer is working but the scanner has died. Then they start getting regular BSOD's whenever they boot up.
Same OS, different users, different outcomes.
I'm sure if an expert had setup that Linux machine it would work fine, but obviously someone messed up. And I'm sure there are people who can crash OSX too. Hell, I'm sure that there are people out there who could even crash a digital watch :) - HoldenDapen0r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3it is flickr....
dumbass - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I think this is an OS X crash:
http://www.paulofierro.com/images/osx_crash.jpg - fuckingusername, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I just made this one posted on their list waiting for approval
http://files.myopera.com/web4me/albums/158222/bluescreenfunny.jpg - Kitsune818, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Perhaps he/she stands in some sort of comical way? Maybe they were doing a routine for passers by at the time?
- nikkesen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Not as much fun as the error message on all the pumps at this one gas station near me. That was just funny. I couldn't stop laughing. My boyfriend who was pumping the gas was happy to see it because normally on those screens they have obnoxious commercials playing.
I imagine there might have been some happy motorists; no stupid commercials! - promovi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Ok, I think this is funny, but if this was a Mac crash, would it just have the spinning beach ball on the screen?
- cawpin, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6I don't know why they call them that either. Petrol is a class of fuel that includes both gasoline and diesel. Who knows, they call an elevator a lift. Lift is what it does, not what it is.
jukey - Yes, typical bullschitting between Americans and Brits. You should try it. - 1988hannah, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4All NCR self service checkouts run XP as well, they still have all crap such as Pinball on them too. I am in charge of them at work and they regularly crash when people enter there pin number so we don't know whether they have been charged or not. :P
- JohnnyRad, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Off topic but, that unleaded sign looks like they lifted the design from Crayola Crayon.
- HBNDonut, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Happened to a friend of mine... she put her card in there and was just waiting for her money to come out then the "Windows is shutting down" message came on. I laughed my ass off. I guess its because Im a nerd. She didn't seem to see the funny side though.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6or even some of these http://pileofphotos.com/view/64/Blue-screens-of-death
- Ramble, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5We call all the pumps petrol pumps, whether they hand out petrol (gasoline) or diesel.
Also, BP is a big company (and native) so I can imagine that's where tha name originated, because many people would see the BP band at the pumps.
Also, we invented the damn langauge, what we say goes. - pupppet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yes this is obviously the fault of Windows as whoever supplied the hardware and whoever wrote the pump software are incapable of making mistakes.
- danakin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Is it bad that I want to Digg up the comments on the Flickr photo page?
- castleking, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The newer handheld scanners at Target run windows. I know because my store just got them a few days ago. I've had to reboot the damn thing maybe four times already because it froze. The old plain jane black and white screen ones NEVER froze on me.
- eighttracks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Ahh, the joy of Mac gaming
- Rabbethan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I actually saw a blue screen of death on one of those iPod vending machines, my girlfriend thought I was moronic because I found it so funny. I probably have a picture somewhere...
- irieKEN, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Yep, this 0xA error looks to be memory related (RAM/memory controller has gone south), so it may not entirely be Microsoft's fault.
However, I definitely don't like the idea of 90% of the machines that take my credit card information running fairly vanilla Windows XP installs (that 90% number is my best guess estimate). I've serviced kiosk machines before, and they are often just a Dell desktop computer running Windows; amazingly easy to install software on, and very often connected to the open Internet (consider what you can do with internet access and the ability to install your own software on a machine that takes other people's credit card information). - redpixie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yup, saw it happen on Thursday from a bank ATM in Cork, Ireland.
- EvilWalksWithMe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Please post it if you find it.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"it is flickr....dumbass"
Dugg you up, but I would laugh out loud if Flickr went offline for maintenance when you posted that :) - snolan1990, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4why complicate a pump.
the more stuff you put on something the more things there are to go wrong... especially if it is windows you are putting on. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1yes please post, i would love to see this one
edit: close but not what you wanted
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/30/the-soul-of-an-ipod-vending-machine/ - sfacets, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Any bloody wonder petrol is so expensive...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1yeah i just saw the ad on youtube, HTF is that even a credible feature? "No cryptic error messages"
with an error message you can GOOGLE it and find out WTF is going on so it can be fixed (IE BAD RAM)
you will never find out whats wrong with your mac becuase it doesnt tell you when it hangs up and dies. you send it back to apple and get RAPED up the ass with BS fees and shipping - dinergy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1it happens to all systems: http://silolabs.net/~sparker/linux_reboot_mall_photobooth.jpg
this is one of those mall photo-booths that "sketch" the photo of the people. i walked by and noticed it rebooted and was fsck'ing after a crash. - control98408, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'd rather have that blue screen to tell me not to use it, than another os that just freezes or lags for hours without any sign of any hardware failure.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3"f you install Wind0ze, haX0rz will come..."
bahaha - cheesegrater22, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down..."
- DrDabbles, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Every day, your ATM/Credit card(s) run through possibly several hundred Windows machines. Starting at your bank, all the way down to the NT4/Win2000/3 servers at each Wal-Mart, to the ATMs you see. XP Embedded runs several devices, and full blown Windows runs all sorts of sneaky places.
For the most part, if systems are secured properly in the first place by minimizing the number of attack vectors, you're pretty safe. I mean, you make credit card payments over the phone to people every day. I trust the software running THOSE a lot less than I trust Windows.
For the record...I run Linux. :-P - shade45, on 10/11/2007, -9/+10Lame, who cares if it running windows
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1yep, its mostly the user installing whatever he feels like, even if it has virus or malware written all over it.
ive never had a spyware problem on my computer, my xp starts in the exact same time as it had when i finished installing a new image on to it. my HTPC is even faster than my desktop and the image on the HDD is older. XP on my HTPC is actaully more stable than the MAC with a new image that i have at work. -
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