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Windows XP Embedded
Embedded Geek writes: "Embedded Systems Programming has a piece
about Microsoft organizing its employees to advocate their embedded products in online newsgroups (part of "a new culture at Microsoft" making "an effort to shed the company's reputation as an incommunicative giant.") This is coordinated with Microsoft's launch of Windows XP Embedded at their Embedded Developers' Conference (the countdown clock on their homepage says Wednesday but the launch party is Thursday)." News.com notes that this will be used in slot machines and ATMs. Insert obligatory free-money joke.
In a S/390?
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Wow. It turns out you only need 512 MB RAM, 1 gig of storage and a 900MHz CPU on your embedded device to run this.
Wait a minute...
Knunov
Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?
Does that include slashdot?
Guess we shall see who the real microsoft plants are in slashdot by the responses to this article... :)
(I remember the good ole days when you never heard a pro-microsoft rant on slashdot... :)
"this will be used in slot machines and ATMs"
So a Microsoft product is going to be responsible for a machine that takes a whole bunch of money. Who else is a little nervous about all of this?
sin(6cos(r)+5A)
No, the banking industry would NEVER run Windows on their ATMs!
Great, we have to call the fuckers to activate our money? "You have added money to your account, please call Microsoft at 1-888-MS-OWNS-U to reactivate it. Remember, if you modify your account too often, we will disable your account."
No, man, working for Microsoft ROCKS! I LOVE this company! I LOVE THIS COMPANY! Who told you to sit down?! Did I mention how awesome Microsoft embedded systems are? They ROCK!
It Is the Nature of Information to Transgress Artificial Boundaries
How long until Sircam starts transfering money from one persons ATM machine to another?
I send you this financial transaction in order to have your advice.
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
I was there when the server rebooted. It showed a Windows 2000 desktop with an error message in a dialog box.
Hmmm. Microsoft Windows: Suddenly everything sticks.
Paul.
You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different.
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new advisory posted XX-XX-XXXX (date censored due to DMCA violations).
description: new bug in IE version 12, default on all windows embedded applications (including ATM, slot machines, car stereo systems).
quick description: by using some malformed ATM-cards, an attacker can inject a code that will make IE cross-jump between bank accounts, and therefore access the internals of the account. The string has been sent to microsoft for further analyzation, and hopefully they will give an Obscure Patch within the next eight months.
personal considerations: perhaps in a world of full-disclosure, microsoft would give a patch in few days and save zillions of ATM users, but surely this system could be used by terrorists to subvert the US banking system. so censoring advisories is a good idea.
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-- There are two kind of sysadmins: Paranoids and Losers. (adapted from D. Bach)
And the Natwest ATM at Waterloo Station (again London, UK) which BSOD'd on the lady before me in the queue, taking her card with it.
She's probably the only person I know with a personal reason to hate Microsoft. Hehe.
cmclean
P.S. Did you know the term "Cashpoint" is copyright in the UK by LloydsTSB? wtf?
"Any similarity between the hooting of a million eager monkeys and Slashdot is purely coincidental." -THEFLASHMAN
Free money, or FEE money?
A Fee of $4.00 will be charged to this transaction for customer support, legal fees and continued lobbying to prevent Microsoft from being punished for monopolistic practices.
PRESS THIS BUTTON TO ACCEPT ---->
OR
PRESS THIS BUTTON TO ACCEPT ---->
Sorry, CANCEL has been disabled, please call 1-900-UGO-MSFT for customer support, first 30 minutes $75, mininum charge 30 minutes.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
In fact, embedded XP is the best thing since sliced bread and the Stinger platform will rarely crash your phone. The XBox kicks ass and Steve "Fester" Balmer is the nicest guy you can imagine.
In essence, it's really not true that Microsoft employees subvert discussion groups. I can prove it if you send mail to captainzapp@microsoft.com.
ich bin der musikant
mit taschenrechner in der hand
kraftwerk
If you're talking about the message "At least one service or device driver failed during startup. Check event log for details." then that's OK. All the NT systems I've ever seen (OK, the ones I've set up) do this - that's how you know it's working properly.
This sig made only from recycled ASCII
Welcome to WinXP for ATM
Please wait.
Enter your card.
New hardware found! Installing card-reader, please wait.
Please remove card from ATM.
Rebooting...
Welcome to WinXP for ATM
Please wait.
GPF, press "1, Clear + Enter" to reboot.
Rebooting...
Welcome to WinXP for ATM
Please wait.
Scandisk found errors on card-reader.
Enter your card.
Errors on your card have been found. Would you like to create a recovery-card?
"No."
It looks like you have never used this ATM before, would you like to transfer your profile?
"How do you know that?? No!"
You have selected withdraw cash.
Access Denied. Only a user with administrative rights may perform this action.
"F***.. Gimme back my card!"
Unable to remove card, there has been a sharing violation. This card is in use by another user.
"WTF????"
My life is one big siesta in which I'm dreaming I wished my life was one big siesta.
I've seen the Windows 2000 login screen at an ATM in the UK (with an error box behind it), which I have to say scared the willies out of me. I almost wish I'd had a camera with me at the time.
Hmm this appears to be my (2^8)th post, glad I'm not a Pacman machine.
Special Relativity: The person in the other queue thinks yours is moving faster.
heh.. and does MSN Messenger insessantly load on all the machines. That'd b great, i can check my hotmail while waiting 5 min for my transaction to complete.
:->
Better yet, maybe they leave the remote adminstration enabled by default
XP should be imbedded in those machines you usually find in train stations that will weigh you and tell your fortune.
That way, Microsoft can honestly say XP "scales".
{mmph, snort, BWAAAHAHAHAHA}
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
The Metrocard despencers in NYC use nt4. I had the privlage of watching one that was totally fubar. It kept rebooting, got everything from the bios to the boot screen info written down in my visor :). To show how great they are, I once kept pushing the coin return on a metrocard dispenser and it kicked out $20 in dollar coins. Can't wait for XP to get into ATMS :P
[Just Shut Up and Do What I say]
paying umpteen dollars to be put on hold by some pimply faced teenager who probably couldn't code his way out of a paper bag
Interesting! As like probably many of you I know this experience of waiting on hold forever and finally reaching an incompetent helpdesk person. Rarely, maybe reach someone competent and very helpful. I too have been on the other side dishin out the helpdesk, but it was mostly networking stuff and nothing about code. Currently, I am taking a class on C programming, a relative newbie, so this seems like a challenge because if I were to be in the situation of having to deal with a pimply faced teenager I at least better know how to code myself out of a paper bag! So how to begin?
#include
#include "brownbag.h"
int main(void)
{
if (brownbag = 1)
exit;
return 0;
}
Since, I am only learning C right now, that's all I know. But maybe it might be better to use Java, python, perl, I now sure, but I'm learning. Is there a sourceforge project for coding out of a paper bag or a HOWTO? Or is coding out of a paper bag closed source proprietary code? Thinking about this and not completely knowing how to code myself out of a paperbag I think twice about who may be on the other end now of that help desk.
System requirements
Ok Bill, bend over
I can't see why so many people seem mad at MS. Don't you realize this is just another humanitarian effort of the part of the world's greatest philanthropist Bill Gates. MS is just trying to save people the pain of using an unstable, overpriced, insecure, banking system as well as stop the flow of open source application made by greedy, unscrupulous, devil worshipping, European communist infiltrators attempting to overthrow democracy through their subversive operating systems. If you think about it it is really your ethical duty to help stop the loss of freedom and support Microsoft's well intentioned attempts to improve (as if that were possible!) their software.
By the way DMCA rocks!!
(protect the right of song artists and support the RIAA, another well intentioned organization with only the intrests of song artists and music in heart!)
I stole this Sig