Can Your ATM Play Beethoven?

bpiltz writes "A funk band in Harrisonburg, VA, called Midnight Spaghetti, has posted a story with photos about a newly installed Diebold Opteva 520 ATM at Carnegie Mellon University that crashed, then rebooted. The Windows XP operating system initialized without the actual ATM software. The result was a public desktop computer, with only a touch screen interface, left wide open for the amusement of the students at the most wired university in the U.S. Interestingly, Diebold is one of the leading manufacturers of e-voting machines."

Comments

Re:"Progress"?

[floydman]

Actually guess what, with all the 24 million colors, and all the complexity taken out, some people just stand there wondering what to press next. I dont expect those to do :


$ cd ~/pinnumber
$ ./bank -fetch 100$ pinnumber
$ ./bank -query account
$ exit


but at the same time i have to say that ATM machines are over complicated, slow, and they screw up big time (my card has been SWALLOWED by the machine on more than one occasion).

Bottom line is that some one needs to make a new ATM solution that works, propably on an open source platform (is that secure enough, you tell me), and most impotrant is ...IT WORKS....