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A Windows error on a gas pump
Those of you who subscribe to my Twitter feed will have seen this already, but I just had to blog about something that happened on Friday on the way up to a friend’s cottage in northern Ontario — we stopped for gas at the local Esso station and here is what I saw (click the image below for the full-sized version):
It’s a Windows XP error that says: “The file or directory C:\\XPE_ROOT\system32 is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.” Luckily, I was still able to get gas :-)
A quick check of Flickr shows that there is a universe of similar shots, including this one and this one and this one — and for some Canadian content, this one.
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Holy cow.
I now understand the increasing gas prices. What, with a MS platform, how could they *not* keep rising? ;-)
I met with some MS execs 6 years ago who told me a little known fact about how they were well on their way to dominating the market for software on gas pumps. It appears they thought this was a very important market for them to dominate…
I’ve been a service Tech for 19 years(on gas pumps)…… I have seen ALOT of changes, and if anyone is interested most systems that run the pumps( The Cash register systems) Must run on windows or similar due to the Credit Card networks such as Visanet, Buypass,Cirrus ect.Require the equipment have an I.P. Address. Everything seems to be networked in one way or another.