What were they thinking, bringing Chiesa on so early?
(RL football lore: Liverpool manager Arne Slot seems to have a self-imposed rule that says that forward Federico Chiesa can only get 0-7 minutes playtime per match. This in spite of the fact that Chiesa has been one of the team's best players in what is generally an embarrassingly underwhelming season)
At a previous job, we had to deal with scientific equipment (oscilloscopes, at the like) running on Windows XP (in the lat 2010's). On the positive side, we were able to kick them off the network entirely. On the downside, nearly every single one of them was infected with Conficker and we'd get alerts when the operators used USB drives to move data between the equipment and the production network. By the time I left, we'd gotten a few of the devices reloaded with a factory image and then turned off autorun, but I'm sure the problem is still widespread. And, of course, upgrading beyond Windows XP wasn't possible and applying OS hardening to the devices was a pipe dream. There should be a special place in Hell for the management of companies which create these sorts of devices. They are happy to charge vast amounts of money, but do fuck all to ensure the security of them.
I used to work at an amusement park and the roller coaster I worked on had a touch screen in the control booth that was connected to windows 2000s PC in the room below the station where all the PLCs that controlled the ride were. Best I could tell the windows PC would monitor the PLCs and the screen up top would show us errors and just general ride info.
Anyways one of coworkers was saying the previous year the ride was down and one of the maintenance dudes was down there playing solitaire cause it was showing up on the screen in the booth.
In 2010? Last year I left a place that was running them on XP, and they "had to be connected" for "printing" reasons. I raised the flags, they did what they wanted. Whatever.
The thing I enjoy about these sort of devices is when it inspires the manufacturer to actually optimize their software so it will run on the weakest, cheapest hardware. It doesn't always happen, but sometimes I'm amazed on what people can do with things like < $1 microcontrollers.
21 Comments
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 48 pts · 226d
follow up: https://mrrp.place/@b/statuses/01KEK54ZXHF9KSZWHDJ590CM4S
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org · 8 pts · 225d
Love it
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 225d
but can it stream Doom?
underscores@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 225d
would be cool if they used the dials and buttons but I imagine they were only able to use the oscilloscope as a display device and touch input
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 38 pts · 225d
Bringus Studios on youtube has a lot of "Getting Steam OS running on weird thing" videos if you get a kick out of this sort of stuff.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 225d
Is this the new "does it run Doom"?
three@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 225d
Doom -> crysis -> steam
perishthethought@piefed.social · 16 pts · 225d
The thing about Valve is, they always try and walk it in...
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 225d
They're having a laugh!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 225d
What were they thinking, bringing Chiesa on so early?
(RL football lore: Liverpool manager Arne Slot seems to have a self-imposed rule that says that forward Federico Chiesa can only get 0-7 minutes playtime per match. This in spite of the fact that Chiesa has been one of the team's best players in what is generally an embarrassingly underwhelming season)
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 225d
My belov'd westham
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 225d
Because it’s cheap enough to put a whole thin client PC inside the box instead of building custom hardware, so of course it can run
DoomSteam.sylver_dragon@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 225d
At a previous job, we had to deal with scientific equipment (oscilloscopes, at the like) running on Windows XP (in the lat 2010's). On the positive side, we were able to kick them off the network entirely. On the downside, nearly every single one of them was infected with Conficker and we'd get alerts when the operators used USB drives to move data between the equipment and the production network. By the time I left, we'd gotten a few of the devices reloaded with a factory image and then turned off autorun, but I'm sure the problem is still widespread. And, of course, upgrading beyond Windows XP wasn't possible and applying OS hardening to the devices was a pipe dream. There should be a special place in Hell for the management of companies which create these sorts of devices. They are happy to charge vast amounts of money, but do fuck all to ensure the security of them.
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 225d
I did this on an environmental chamber temp controller a while back because it was running an embeded version of windows.
evidences@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 225d
I used to work at an amusement park and the roller coaster I worked on had a touch screen in the control booth that was connected to windows 2000s PC in the room below the station where all the PLCs that controlled the ride were. Best I could tell the windows PC would monitor the PLCs and the screen up top would show us errors and just general ride info.
Anyways one of coworkers was saying the previous year the ride was down and one of the maintenance dudes was down there playing solitaire cause it was showing up on the screen in the booth.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 225d
In 2010? Last year I left a place that was running them on XP, and they "had to be connected" for "printing" reasons. I raised the flags, they did what they wanted. Whatever.
sundray@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 225d
The thing I enjoy about these sort of devices is when it inspires the manufacturer to actually optimize their software so it will run on the weakest, cheapest hardware. It doesn't always happen, but sometimes I'm amazed on what people can do with things like < $1 microcontrollers.
shoki@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 225d
i thought this was some kind of medical device you would find next to a hospital bed and got slightly concerned for a second
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 225d
"Sir hes crashing!"
"Hold the fuck on bill just one more round of balatro"
captstulle@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 225d
Oh. Thats cool
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 223d
The oscilliscope has a color touch screen. My old PhD lab is still using the ones with CRT screens. Must be nice to have money.