Dayofswords
March 19th, 2010, 11:26 AM
i was at a fred meyer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Meyer) yesterday and noticed a scanner(on concrete pilers for people to check prices) was a bit different it seemed to be frozen with the fred meyer logo and wont scan UPCs, so i fiddled with its buttons that normally do nothing but after varies push i was able to get to a setup screen for the scanner, i noticed it looked like win 2000 style font and and colors and layouts.
maybe it just looks like it, w/e. so the screen is a touch screen it seems, cool, after a short look around i went to file, then reboot. it shut off and turned on. white screen.... white screeen.... a window pops up and says something like "(Internet(/%Explorer(%" some messed up thing like that. then a count up to like 60, white screened and then the fred meyer logo and "price lookup here" thing, now it can scan.
ok i fixed it i guess and i learned it runs windows.
cool
this is not to say its bad or that it should have Linux, but i just find it interesting.
oh, and it reminds me of when i went on a flight, there was an IE error on a flight screen(see attachment)
maybe it just looks like it, w/e. so the screen is a touch screen it seems, cool, after a short look around i went to file, then reboot. it shut off and turned on. white screen.... white screeen.... a window pops up and says something like "(Internet(/%Explorer(%" some messed up thing like that. then a count up to like 60, white screened and then the fred meyer logo and "price lookup here" thing, now it can scan.
ok i fixed it i guess and i learned it runs windows.
cool
this is not to say its bad or that it should have Linux, but i just find it interesting.
oh, and it reminds me of when i went on a flight, there was an IE error on a flight screen(see attachment)