Antje
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Post by Antje on Nov 7, 2012 22:29:39 GMT
I just got off an Overground station and I discovered a modern Underground status board that had a software update dialog message and the Windows XP taskbar over it. The taskbar also seems to suggest that the status update screen might be an full-screen internet page on a Internet Explorer window, using a page from the usual TfL website. So, does this mean that the widely used interface for the status update boards was actually a website page all along?
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rincew1nd
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Post by rincew1nd on Nov 7, 2012 22:40:11 GMT
Sounds a bit like my old local NatWest cash machine; it ran Windows XP.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 22:43:02 GMT
The tills in Sainsbury's run Windows 2000!
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Fahad
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Post by Fahad on Nov 7, 2012 22:51:01 GMT
Each iBus unit on a London Bus runs Windows D:
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Antje
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Post by Antje on Nov 7, 2012 23:24:25 GMT
Airport screens were also running windows - figured that one when one of them got a Blue Screen of Death.
And if it was a real web page, is there a link to that, or is it for internal use only?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 23:24:56 GMT
I think you are right. I have seen this before at South Kensington - it seems LU use Windows for all their computers. There was a thread I started a while back about "Windows" on the tube... But I guess my thoughts shall be saved for a time and place. I have however, tried to access this web page at home, but it isn't possible. I noted down a web address shown on a monitor for tube updates. IIRC it took the form 10.98.11.xx/stationame/random letters but nothing seemed to work  |
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Post by su31 on Nov 7, 2012 23:33:42 GMT
AFAIK it feeds from the LU Intranet rather than an external web site.
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Antje
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Post by Antje on Nov 7, 2012 23:54:19 GMT
10.x.x.x IP addresses are for private networks only. However, on this occasion it appears to come from tfl.gov.uk
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Post by cso on Nov 8, 2012 0:18:33 GMT
Unfortunately, that means nothing... just because it's on a tfl.gov.uk domain does not mean that it's publicly accessible. It is perfectly possible, and feasible that *.tfl.gov.uk resolves through DNS to completely different IP addresses internally and externally. =
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Fahad
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Post by Fahad on Nov 20, 2012 22:10:55 GMT
.tfl seems mostly to be used within TfL, but that certainly doesn't mean that no other domain names are
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