Mr Thiemann said research by the TowerGroup showed that 70% of new cash machines being installed were Windows based.

So, installing a general-purpose, monolithic, proven insecure OS inside a cash machine that only has fairly minimal and specialised needs is a good idea? Like hell it is: get a small OS core in, add the bits you need, be happy.

I wonder if the UIs are IE based? That would truly take the biscuit… These cash machines have already been affected by viruses, come on people, get some intelligence into your heads!

An excerpt from what we talk about late at night.

(00:23:52)

delusional : think of something fun to talk about tomoz; we need something to cheer us up

delusional : seems we haven’t talked about something just random for ages

delusional : we need MORE STALKERS

delusional : send more stalkers

delusional : it was all more fun back then

John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru.

One of my favourite DJs. Period. No one was quite like old Peel. One of those people who has been around what seems like forever and you think always will be. I’ve found many, many new bands from John, as have many others I am sure. His tireless championing of real music over the tosh that inhabits the charts will be sorely missed. My thoughts are with his family and friends.

Okay everyone, Bluefunk code has hit sf.net CVS if you want to try it out. There’s a readme in there which details the stuff I think you need; if there’s other stuff tell me. The build is pretty raw atm, just a make file that dumps you an exe in the root directory.

Have fun, and write up some bugs if you want =) But not ones about how you can’t get it running, ‘cause if you’re gonna check it out from CVS, well, you are going to have to work for your *funk!

Bluefunk’s SourceForge page. No releases and so on yet, apologies! Trying to figure out what you need to build/run bluefunk prior to that… Hopefully CVS access should be available soon, for those hardy enough to try that route.

A step forward, in any case.