__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Tuesday 12 June 2007 01:26 \__
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>> | "Nineteen machines had 21 screen freezes or system crashes, producing a
>> | blue screen and messages about an "illegal operation" or a "fatal
>> | exception error."
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>> | "Especially with this blue-screen problem, you don't know whether it's
>> | the printer drivers, you don't know whether it's Diebold's own code or
>> | whether it's Windows,"
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>> http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6257
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> But that can't be! According to DFS (or was it Hadron Quark? I can't
> keep the trolls straight any more) he has never ever ever seen a BSOD.
Not even on mission-critical(ish) systems...
"Today while on my way back I stopped at the (Cairo Amman) bank to withdraw
some money. As luck would have it, the ATM wasn't working -- again. This
time, I happened to be there when it suddenly BSOD'd and began a reboot
cycle. Obviously, to BSOD it needs to run Windows, and moments later, that
was confirmed."
http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/why-not-embedded-atms-running-xp-professional/
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