Windows 3.1 brings Paris airport to a halt

Dimple said:
The scanning PC is a 486 running XP and it is annoying because it can't keep up and work is lost.
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I thought Win XP required a Pentium II of at least 233 MHz?

bledd. said:
A 486 can barely run Windows 3.11, what madman put XP on there? :D
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Yeah, 486 is only good for Win 3.1/3.11. A high-end 486 would run Win 95, but slowly.

Freefaller said:
Lots of ATMs still use Win98 & XP
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Not quite a BSoD, but still relevant :D

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HeX said:
Same here, our Trust was mainly XP until latter half of last year when they panic upgraded everyone to Win7 :D
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3,700 PC's had to be upgraded at our Trust

Pawnless Endgame said:
I thought Win XP required a Pentium II of at least 233 MHz?
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I'm exaggerating but the truth is Trust PCs are so locked down I haven't got a clue, it's slow.
In the morning I turn it on and it takes 20 minutes to be ready for action (that's not an exaggeration).
 
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Dimple said:
I'm exaggerating but the truth is Trust PCs are so locked down I haven't got a clue, it's slow.
In the morning I turn it on and it takes 20 minutes to be ready for action (that's not an exaggeration).
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I'm on a Windows 7 virtual machine (WYSE terminal) and even those take 5 minutes to get to a desktop. Only recently (this year) were we upgraded from XP and my machine refuses to store cookies which makes browsing the forums annoying in work :(

Interesting story.. I did a walk around on an evening shift to see what the office blocks were like outside of normal hours and found at least 20 machines left on because "it takes too long to turn them on". Most of the offices were left wide open too. I was looking at things from a safety perspective, so I shut them down (and removed all the office kettles, lol) but I can bet those machines have been running since the last proper power cut.
 
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Dimple said:
I'm exaggerating but the truth is Trust PCs are so locked down I haven't got a clue, it's slow.
In the morning I turn it on and it takes 20 minutes to be ready for action (that's not an exaggeration).
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100% agreed!!

Our new Trust PCs (which recently got rolled out) have i5-4590 processors, which bench on Passmark @ 7221. My home laptop runs on an i7-4720HQ and benches @ 8138, so only a bit faster than the Trust PCs. Trust PCs, however, take 5-10 minutes to reboot from desktop back to the desktop. My laptop takes between 15 and 18 seconds desktop-to-desktop :-)

Oh, and I hate Internet Explorer! Haven't used it on a home PC since 2002.
 
EVH said:
Only recently (this year) were we upgraded from XP and my machine refuses to store cookies which makes browsing the forums annoying in work :(
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Browse the forums? - OCUK was taken away around 6 years ago and we basically have nothing that we can use on our Internet.
Today I had a problem with Adobe Professional so I Googled and every link was not allowed.
I'm the Fire Officer in our building and PC's left on isn't a problem anymore because ours do boot quite fast now since the Win7 upgrade.

Pawnless Endgame said:
Oh, and I hate Internet Explorer! Haven't used it on a home PC since 2002.
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For some reason we can use Google Chrome which is a good job because I can't access Clinical Photography or EDMS on IE.
 
Social media and YouTube are blocked, as are any Google sponsored search results (usually the affiliate links appearing in the top 3 results), but apart from using IE 7 it's "OK".

I have to be honest, I don't have much time to browse in work but my biggest bugbear in work is that tabbed browsing has been disabled, so when I load more than 1 Datix incident it opens a new window for every. single. one.
 
EVH said:
Interesting story.. I did a walk around on an evening shift to see what the office blocks were like outside of normal hours and found at least 20 machines left on because "it takes too long to turn them on". Most of the offices were left wide open too. I was looking at things from a safety perspective, so I shut them down (and removed all the office kettles, lol) but I can bet those machines have been running since the last proper power cut.
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All our PCs are always left on overnight/at weekends.

The baffling thing is that even on ancient XP, we still get pop-ups telling us to restart to install updates almost every other week. So annoying.
 
Quite a few retail position systems that i have seen that were running as400 and WY55 type green screen terminals.
I also got scanned in an aircraft in Ireland on a similar wyse terminal.
I used to work for Wyse too, just before they were taken over by Dell. Used to get service requests for some REALLY old kit coming in quite often.

A lot of customers just cannot bear the idea of change, and just want to sweat assets as long as humanly possible. Which is fair enough, but it opens up some serious risks when change had to happen, or when things go seriously wrong..
 
Dimple said:
I have a DATIX web version and also the proper standalone version.
One of my jobs is to reset DATIX users passwords.
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Thankfully I don't reset passwords, but I do use both the web client and the "rich" client. Basically another name for the full desktop app :p

The last company I worked for had Windows NT machines running automated glass cutting tables. One of the tables was slightly newer but one day the graphics card died and being nominated person with a hint of technical knowledge, I had to rush out to find a like-for-like AGP graphics card to get it back up and running.... whilst a lovely chap from Austria was stressing on the end of the telephone and the production manager was moaning about "loss time".

TheVoice said:
All our PCs are always left on overnight/at weekends.

The baffling thing is that even on ancient XP, we still get pop-ups telling us to restart to install updates almost every other week. So annoying.
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Turn them off once in a while bro!
 
NickK said:
And probably going through a keyboard a month.. <spacebar> <spacebar> ...

We did COBOL at uni for one lesson to understand different languages - because we used VI or a standard text editor.. it meant indenting loops with the space bar.. that is my resounding memory of COBOL. :D
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Mine is a brief moment of panic between when the compiler showed a huge number of errors and when I realised that I was one character out with some of my indentation. That happened more than once.
 
Shocking that we are using software with many known vulnerabilities for such important systems. What's the cost of passenger safety?
 
EVH said:
Thankfully I don't reset passwords, but I do use both the web client and the "rich" client. Basically another name for the full desktop app :p
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I go in late today but I'm using that later just to get blank faces.
"Have you changed the password for the rich DATIX client?"
 
At my last job, the system controlling the 'Chubb' security system and all of the door locks was still running NT. Inevitably, the system came crashing to a halt at least once a month.
 
We support a customer who still runs production applications on an old HP-UX 11.0 machine. They also have an AIX 4 system that I have to fix backups on from time to time.
 
Clark Nova said:
We support a customer who still runs production applications on an old HP-UX 11.0 machine. They also have an AIX 4 system that I have to fix backups on from time to time.
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Ahh used to use HP-UX machines.. I remember having the HP account manager in an giving him a load of snottiness because the old D class machines were 90% air inside.. ended up getting the first set of A-class when they came out. Used to develop using aCC on HP OpenCall (SS7 stack used for mobile operator signalling networks).. the days of coding in vi and using makefiles..
 
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