Boltar wrote:
Colum Mylod wrote in message . ..

The ad screen on the top deck of a no. 7 rebooted itself this evening
after a stack dump. Win200 Pro in all its ugliness. No wonder it died.

It never ceases to amaze me where I see such OS overkill for simple
applications. A local gym's info screens are really Win95.


Its just economics. Buy some cheap PC motherboard and bits with window$ thrown
in for a few hundred quid , buy or download some naff slideshow software (or
whatever) and in the bus it goes. From a technical point of view its certainly
way overkill but shoving in a bespoke DVD player or perhaps image display
system would cost far more even though the specs would be lower. Its like
cash machines , these days they're mostly windows PCs which even though have
to be a higher spec and are less reliable (and probably less secure) than the
old bespoke systems they replaced are probably cheaper. Which is all that
matters these days. Accountants run this country. Didn't you know?

B2003

If accountants ran the country, how do you beat a moderately well-priced
system running Linux?

Cheap hardware + expensive crappy OS == Moderately priced hardware +
free reliable OS, no?

BTW, since when do Routemasters have ad screens?

Brad