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Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure
Date 2019-03-28 22:56 +1100
Message-ID <gg3r46Fmq0bU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <gg321vFhie8U1@mid.individual.net> <87pnqbpf3p.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk>

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On 28/03/2019 7:39 pm, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:
>> My local Maccas was temporarily unable to take orders today because
>> there was some kind of upstream network failure. I took this
>> photograph of one of their kiosks.
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/lsmg6ux84svt2ne/WindowsCrash.jpg?dl=0
>>
>> What does this image tell us?
>>
>> 1. McDonald's is using Windows to run a system that takes orders for
>> burgers and coffee.
>>
>> 2. Said system cannot handle an upstream failure without crashing due
>> to problem with a driver.
>>
>> 3. The driver appears to be related to the touch screen.
>>
>> <https://www.scribd.com/document/254188226/Elo-Touch-Solutions-Multi-Touch-Driver-User-Manual-6-4-0>
>>
>> 4. Somehow, and upstream failure can break a touch screen driver.
> 
> Which bit of the image do you think shows a network problem or a
> connection from the driver fault to the network?
> 

The network problem was manifest by a failure of their entire system, as 
well as its coming back after ten minutes with no action on their part.

Sylvia.

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McDonald's Kiosk failure Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-03-28 15:48 +1100
  Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-03-28 07:37 +0000
    Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-03-31 00:19 +0000
      Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2019-04-01 18:16 +0100
        Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2019-04-01 18:18 +0100
        Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-01 18:02 +0000
          Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2019-04-03 13:37 +0100
            Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-04 01:20 +0000
        Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-04-04 20:57 +0000
  Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-03-28 08:27 +0000
    Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-03-28 22:55 +1100
  Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-28 08:39 +0000
    Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-03-28 22:56 +1100
  Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2019-03-28 10:43 +0000
    Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-03-28 23:00 +1100
      Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2019-03-28 12:38 +0000
        Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-03-28 23:47 +1100
      Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-28 10:02 -0400
        Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-28 14:17 +0000
        Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-03-28 14:30 +0000
      Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-03-28 15:30 +0000
  Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-03-28 09:45 -0400
    Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-28 14:18 +0000
      Re: McDonald's Kiosk failure Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2019-03-28 16:21 +0000

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