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#1 2008-12-03 11:28 am
- jonathan-hill
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Philadelphia International Airport uses Mac
I have come to find that Philadelphia International Airport exclusively uses Mac's to drive all the public flight information displays throughout the airport. Each screen, mostly displaying Arriving and Departing Flight Information, is driven by it's own slaved Mac Mini all networked together. The mini is tucked neatly behind each display if you take a close look. The other day when I was passing through, several of the screens were proudly displaying the screen saver Mac OS X floating silver apple logo; although, I imagine that most travelers would have rather seen their flight info. Time to get tech support out of the coffee room! I thought it was fun to see. <br>
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Stack it!#3 2008-12-03 11:44 am
- jonathan-hill
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Re: Philadelphia International Airport uses Mac
Good point!
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#4 2008-12-03 1:43 pm
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Re: Philadelphia International Airport uses Mac
ukimalefu wrote:
That's the computer's name. They shouldn't use that.
What would the computer's name actually do for someone.
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#5 2008-12-03 2:24 pm
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Re: Philadelphia International Airport uses Mac
mrreet2001 wrote:
ukimalefu wrote:
That's the computer's name. They shouldn't use that.
What would the computer's name actually do for someone.
Depends on how the rest of the network is set up.
But it's one more way to target THAT SPECIFIC MACHINE for whatever nefarious deeds you're planning.
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#6 2008-12-03 2:48 pm
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Re: Philadelphia International Airport uses Mac
Haha, it is funny you posted this. Last august I was at the Philly airport and I noticed a few monitors had the Grey "You need to restart your computer" kernel panic screens.
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#8 2008-12-14 3:49 am
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Hmm screeen saver hm?
They need to hire someone to shake the mouse once in a while
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#9 2008-12-14 8:43 am
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Yeah I noticed those also when I was in Philly last month. I kind of laughed since it is kind of stupid to have a screen saver for something like that.
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#10 2008-12-14 2:13 pm
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What terminal is that? Cuz I didn't see anything of the like when I was flying out of there on southwest back during thanksgiving.
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