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.



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Don't worry the routemasters on the 7 will be replaced soon so you won't
have to worry about the screen.

hmm.


"Colum Mylod" wrote in message
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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.



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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

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

On Wed, 12 May 2004 at 01:37:00, Boltar wrote:

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?

I've not seen the screens on a Routemaster, only on some more modern
buses. But I've never seen one switched on yet - not that I could look
at it, even if it was, as I need to look out of the windows of a moving
vehicle. I have seen similar screens on buses in France, but not yet in
this country.
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Website updated 9 May 2004

"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
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BTW, since when do Routemasters have ad screens?

Brad

First have had them on route 7 and 23 for about two years.

TheOneKEA wrote in message ...
If accountants ran the country, how do you beat a moderately well-priced
system running Linux?

Because they haven't heard of it unfortunately. I like linux and actually
use it myself but ever tried explaining its advantage to the suits? Some
have got the message , most haven't. Plus there is the issue of software.
There just isn't the broad range of front end software for linux yet as their
is for windows. Sure you may find some app to do what you want on Sourceforge
or similar but I can't see your average company director going for a rollout
with version 0.2 of AndysWizzyApp downloaded off a site he's never heard of.

B2003