As seen in an Amsterdam bar

7 Responses to As seen in an Amsterdam bar

1. Pierre-Yves Luyten says:

   Monday December 12, 2011 at 16:42

   We have to confess. Black screen of death is even worth than it’s blue brother.

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2. Jack says:

   Monday December 12, 2011 at 17:03

   A new weapon in the fight against tobacoo- downright inconvenience.

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3. Camila Acolide says:

   Monday December 12, 2011 at 19:19

   Is it the bar from St Christopher’s Hostel (aka The Winston)? ;-)

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   • Ruben says:

     Monday December 12, 2011 at 19:34

     Nope! Some bar on the corner of a street and a square, though I’d be surprised if this was a unique case :-)
4. Adam Williamson says:

   Tuesday December 13, 2011 at 00:07

   Using grub as the bootloader doesn’t mean it’s running Linux. Notably, many many pirate copies of Windows 7 use grub, because the standard way to circumvent the Win7 implementation of WGA is to mess with the boot process. Just as likely this thing’s using a, hem, unofficial Windows install.

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5. me says:

   Tuesday December 13, 2011 at 14:10

   It’s not really the cigarette selling mechanism, it’s just a screen that rotates ads.

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6. Arcol says:

   Wednesday December 14, 2011 at 08:42

   Its not the GRUB error which is really bad here, but the INSTRUCTIONS at the right side!

   What kind of user experience it is, which requires a USER MANUAL to get a damn cigarette?

   Actions needed from you:
   1. enough money
   2. selecting the brand of tobacco

   Actions needed from the tobacco machine:
   1. give the changes back
   2. give the damn cigarette.

   They managed to that simple job put a big screen on the machine, and they did an awesome job, so it requires a 7. point USER MANUAL sticked on the machine itself. Thats the failure here.

   The grub failure is just the top of the cake. You start laughing when you see it, and you start crying when you read the instructions sticked to the machine…

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