[ale] Microcenter and Linux

[Jonathan Chum]

Interesting... a buddy of mines at University of Texas was going to build a
web based POS around FreeBSD since it's lower cost for ownership and stable.
When I worked at CompUSA here in Perimeter, they were still on NT. I checked
them out again Friday morning, looked like still on NT, just with new cc
terminal. Less effort for cashier as we had to previously take the card,
slide it through the keyboard, check signature/face before transaction is
completed. Though they still asked for my ID even with my face on my debit
card. Something I never had to do at any place I have to shop in ages.

Regards,
Jonathan Chum
Systems Developer

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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
Geoffrey
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 8:32 PM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] Microcenter and Linux


Just stopped into Microcenter today to check out their sales for the
holidays.  They've got new POS terminals.  Caught the following message
on one booting up:

Booting Linux.....

:)

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Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft

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