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[News] Gas Pumps... Now 'Powered' by GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Gas Pumps... Now 'Powered' by GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:04:40 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Linux gas pump prints Google Maps

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| In further proof that you can never escape Google or interactive marketing, 
| Gilbarco Veeder-Root announced Google support for its interactive gas-pump 
| displays. Gilbarco's Linux-based Applause media system now offers printable 
| Google local business search, maps, driving directions, and coupons.   
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6114899281.html


Related:

Parking with Windows

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| Windows.
| 
| One can't even park anymore without getting the Blue Screen of Death.
| 
| Incidentally, the parking attendant couldn't figure out why I wanted to take 
| a picture of the payment machine. For my part, I couldn't figure out why he  
| wasn't running a real operating system. :-) 
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9805877-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad


Pictures of ATM Machine Running Windows XP Crashing

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| The other day I pulled up to an ATM and it was in the middle of crashing and 
| so I was able to shoot these pics during the crash and reboot. The ATM never 
| did come up fully so I was unable to get some cash.  
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http://www.socialdailynews.com/2007/09/pictures-of-atm-machine-running-windows-xp-crashing/


ATM using un-activated Windows

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| Ok, so lets be realistic for a moment here, first off, is 'Hackers Best 
| Friend" MS Windows really the optimal choice for an operating system that 
| spits out cash?  
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http://www.itdrive.com/articles/177/1/ATM-using-un-activated-Windows/Page1.html


ATM with Pirated Windows [with photos]

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| In Russian you can sometimes meet pirated copy of Windows even 
| on ATM. It warns that this copy of Windows need activation and 
| the work of ATM gets interrupted.
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=981#more-981

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