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Humour - Worth every cent...
« on: August 21, 2003, 12:08:04 AM »
As reported in the the Inquirer, Windows based ATMs have been crashing - here's a picture.  

Maybe this one way that MS helps people save their money???

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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2003, 02:41:22 AM »
Scares the crap out of me just knowing that some ATM's actually run that crap.

It reminds me of some article I read about a particular bank in Canada, which had full keyboards(or fuller keyboards) on their ATM's, and apparently there was a way to 'surf the web' under Windows 3.x

Perhaps some Canadians can help me with details here.
 

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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2003, 06:41:57 AM »
I've seen similar screens at the McDonalds drive thru
on more than one occasion
could explain why the orders are frequently wrong
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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2003, 07:24:12 AM »
Windows money management . . . . :roflmao:
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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2003, 07:32:23 AM »
Oh, come on.  That looks like a database error, and has nothing to do with Windows.

Now, I remember the time I saw a BSOD at the train station.  That was funny.  :)

PS - Don't most ATM's still use OS/2?
 

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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2003, 08:24:34 AM »
Practically all ATMs in Sweden run Windows NT, and I see this kind of thing quite often. The most common error message is "Windows is running low on virtual memory".
 

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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2003, 08:49:34 AM »
really looks like a database error, but i´m not sure if i really want windows to handle MY money ...
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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2003, 09:02:21 AM »
I have seen several windows problems with the atm system in use by Swebank (FöreningsSparbanken). Mainly the run out of virtual memory(wich render the machine useless), but also total system failures. Crap i tell ya.
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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2003, 09:06:54 AM »
Yeah ..

Well lets hope that nuclear power stations arn't running this crap !!

Makes you wonder what systems are controlling the launching of icbm's don't it !!    :-o
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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2003, 09:38:04 AM »
easy fix: Increase the pagemem if it runs low on virtual mem
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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2003, 10:05:38 AM »
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easy fix: Increase the pagemem if it runs low on virtual mem


Proper fix: work out what is causing the machine to run low on memory in the first place.  Fix that problem instead.
 

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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2003, 10:54:52 AM »
In the UK, at least HSBC, Natwest and Lloyds use Windows. I have seen crashed ATMs on maybe 4 or 5 occasions, each time with either a blue screen or windows requester.
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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2003, 11:06:53 AM »
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Oh, come on. That looks like a database error, and has nothing to do with Windows.
Is interesting that it coincided with MSBlast, though.  Perhaps the machine on the *other end* was taken out?

Guess y'never know.  Unless/until someone spills the beans on RISKS, anyway.

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Now, I remember the time I saw a BSOD at the train station. That was funny. :)

PS - Don't most ATM's still use OS/2?
As far as I can tell, there was a mass exodus off OS/2 for ATMs around the Y2k time.  Probably not for any planned reason, but between IBM's EOLing, Y2k concerns, and the relative ease of reimaging what are, after all, just embedded PCs, a lot of things started turning up Windows during that time.  It was a bit eerie to watch it disappear from recently-erected POS systems (the sort with the giant truecolor LCDs that you might see at any recently-renovated supermarket, that  leave the titlebar and widgets visible for easy identifcation by peons like me)...  I can only imagine whoever wrote the cash-register software probably EOLed the OS/2 version when IBM declared it dead, licensed, and supported for only another decade.  Though as far as I can remember, those were usually seen with Warp 3 widgets, not 4 or later, so it wasn't like they were keeping current anyway.

Now, what the good ol' monochrome/textmode ATMs run is anyone's guess.  (Or rather, there seems to be enough variation in those that I've never heard a conclusive 'answer.')  Sure haven't seen *those* crash much, though I did fear for my card a few weeks back when one was slow to respond...
 

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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2003, 11:14:35 AM »
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Poster: The_Editor Date: 2003/8/21 4:06:54

Yeah ..

Well lets hope that nuclear power stations arn't running this crap !!
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/333505

I'm sorry, were you saying something?

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Re: Humour - Worth every cent...
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2003, 11:34:19 AM »
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easy fix: Increase the pagemem if it runs low on virtual mem
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Proper fix: work out what is causing the machine to run low on memory in the first place. Fix that problem instead


Waste of time fix: reinstall
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