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The id of this comment must be greater than -1 and less than 0
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The id of this comment is -0.5.
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Yesterday, on an exhibition, one of the monitors instead of displaying topic related material held a "This copy of Windows is not genuine" warning. I chuckled a little.
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For the post code -1 < 0 < 1, so use 0.
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I love that they took the time to get the AT&T postcards arranged on the wooden table before taking the picture.
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Or get fancy with 1/infinity
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What was that about Rod having an X diameter drill bit? I thought that guy got fired, sounds like he's up to his old tricks again.
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I think you didn't actually read the message. Let me emphasize it for you:
"You must NOT! be an administrator to install this product."
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"Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?
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Unless your ZIP code ends in one or more zeros, you could try just sticking a decimal point in front of it, e.g. .02451 for Waltham, Massachusetts. That's between -1 and 1, and gets the point across.
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Maybe the keylogger needed some special driver.
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But I'm not an administrator, I'm a Network Support Specialist III, what's wrong with this stupid software?
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:D
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TRWTF is drywall mounting. Every kit I've seen comes with those stupid plastic anchors instead of molly bolts. What's more, they don't usually tell you what size drill bit you need for the anchor hole, so you're left to use trial and error until you happen to drill a big enough hole. And then, of course, it probably won't hold up properly anyway.
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Disagree...
MSR - could be serial (no driver), USB HID, USB (Com emuation via driver)
Bill dispenser (usually serial, so wouldn't display the wizard, but who knows)
Receipt printer (could be serial or usb, could also support status monitoring via monitor driver)
OPOS pinpad
...possibly even an OPOS presence sensor...
+1 to the guy with the keylogger driver comment... that made my day.
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Also note Postal Codes often contain letters other than A thru F, & Zip codes can start with 0 and thus must be letters not numbers.
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A 'Cash Point' has lots of special hardware. It's basically a desktop PC connected to either a bunch of hardware, or one really big piece of hardware, depending on manufacturer. I don't remember NCR specifically, but some of them have separate drivers for card reader, pin pad, monitor buttons, receipt printer, cash drawers, cash verifier, cash path (including the little cash cover door), admin mode switches, and any other hardware that may be optional on the machine (deposit path, bank book printer, cash recycler, check reader, etc). If a bank tried to push a driver update to the ATM and it failed you could well end up with something like this. Good software will detect an unknown window, push it to the back, alert the bank that something is wrong, and throw up an 'out of service' screen.
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Uncle Jim? Is that you?
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I'd expect most of those to be serial in this case, though. Of course, I'd also expect an ATM ("cash point") not to be using Windows, so what do I know?
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A couple of years back I was car shopping, and part of my purchase decision was how much the insurance would cost.
I ended up putting dozens of different cars into a certain insurer's website to get an online quote to see how much the insurance would be.
A year later I received in the post a quote from them for one of the cars I had put into their site a year ago. The next day another quote arrived for a different car I had put into their site. And another one the next day. And then about twenty more quotes the day after.
I phoned them up about it and they seemed annoyed at me because it would require getting their IT people to stop their system from doing that.
So who is TRWTF here? Me for asking for multiple quotes, or them for posting a quote a year later? I never remember ticking any boxes saying they could contact me, that I wanted a quote sending out, or that I wanted another quote from them a year later. I've never seen another car insurer do the same thing.
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I can't install it!
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Not that much, Windows is the dominant OS behind ATMs for reasons I've never quite understood.
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The real WTF is that AT&T is also sending them to the old address so 2 people are being snailmail spammed by AT&T.
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Nice to see somebody using that term for a change, instead of ATM. We'll all be driving automobiles soon!
"ATM Machine" is a topic for another day...
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I think you're thinking of infinity/0.
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But without ATM Machines, where else could we put in our PIN Number?
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Dear Dean,
In case you can't tell, this is a grown up place. The fact that you insist on keeping your administrator privileges clearly shows that you’re too too stupid to be using Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit.
Go away and grow up.
Sincerely, Bert Glanstron
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Would you prefer it if they continued to run OS/2?
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I thought it was just me. Same with DVDA discs.
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Perhaps the copyright should be "AT&T Anti-Intellectual Property..."?
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In the PIN number pad attached via the LAN network using the NIC card on your PC computer.
PS script, don't let RAS syndrome get you down.
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Overwatch has been notified.
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Oh. My God. You never go ass-to-mouth!
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And moreover, why would it be forbidden to an admin to install Diagnostics & Recovery?
And ... about the ATM: I live in Romania and here it's very often that ATM's receive impromptu hardware extensions, especially to the magnetic band reader.
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Uh Oh! You've done it now! You published AT&T's Intellectual Property! Now their competitors will be able to robo-bomb their customers too, robbing AT&T of a significant competitive advantage.
You'll be hearing from their lawyers soon. Probably a computer-generated postcard, repeated every day...
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Bonus: usually a lot less mess to clean up afterwards.
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I've told you about this before?