I was waiting at Union Station tonight for the GO Train to take me back home like I always do every night after I finish school. I was checking to see what track number the train was at, when I saw the digital screen show a black screen with the Windows recovery screen (you know Last Known Configuration menu, the screen you get if Windows can't boot up properly). I thought that was hilarious, so I took a picture of it with my Motorola Razr V3 cell phone (which by the way I love and which I've uploaded that picture to my computer using Bluetooth!) . Then, the screen would show the HP logo and I thought oh it's just rebooting and will return back to the schedule. Nope, it was cycling through the black recovery screen and the HP logo.
I've seen Windows crashes before, I saw one at one of the airplane check-in counters in Terminal 3 at Toronto Pearson airport where it showed General Protection Fault. But come on, these are public places, and it makes you wonder as to the security, reliability and stability of the computer systems that run these places.
Should public places be running Windows and if so, what measures are in place to make sure their systems are secure, reliable and stable, and most importantly dependable? Have any of you seen something like this happen in public places?
Here are the pictures:
Windows crash
HP logo on screen
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