ATM: You have "undefined" dollars left in your account

[redbeacon]

What would you do when you find out your local bank's ATM machines actually lets you inject your precious ATM card, then does some cryptic stuff behind the scenes?

 

( What's "cryptic" ya say? Have a look at the following... )

 

http://i11.tinypic.com/6gcd7wj.png

 

At least there's a "No thanks" button, and a no-thanks gesture of appreciation -- to walk away from that dangerous ATM.

 

 

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Mark was surprised to see this after swiping his card:

 

http://i12.tinypic.com/67myuqu.jpg

 

 

" WHAT? You mean you run Windows on your ATMs ?! "

 

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[stsoh]

....." WHAT? You mean you run Windows on your ATMs ?! "

no, all banks normally run on unix machine.

'object reference not set to an instant of an object' means the link is missing.

layman terms there is no connection to the source.

[Refugee]

har?

 

atm not running on windows nt anymore ah?

[xue ling]

isn't that asp.net?

[PaLmEr]

ATMs DO run on windows.

[redbeacon]

isn't that asp.net?

 

Yep...I believe it is. Frontend message, somemore.

ASP.net = Windows technology

 

 

ATMs DO run on windows.

 

I've heard from sources that it's Windows XP (or 2000?) Embedded Edition

 

 

no, all banks normally run on unix machine.

'object reference not set to an instant of an object' means the link is missing.

layman terms there is no connection to the source.

 

My fellow I.T. bro, if you take the picture and maybe sensationalise it, the public would think it's entertaining.

 

Enjoy the rest of your day peeps

[paiseh]

sorry for being off topic. something interesting that i have learnt last year abt unix.

 

Unix stores system time values as the number of seconds from midnight January 1, 1970 (the "Unix Epoch") in variables of type time_t, historically defined as "signed 32-bit integer". On January 19, 2038, the current time will roll over from a zero followed by 31 ones (01111111111111111111111111111111) to a one followed by 31 zeros (10000000000000000000000000000000), which will reset time to the year 1901 or 1970, depending on implementation, because that toggles the sign bit. As many applications use OS library routines for date calculations, the impact of this could be felt much earlier than 2038; for instance, 30-year mortgages may be calculated incorrectly beginning in the year 2008.