One Lil Spark
EPCOT Center Defender
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The system is down. The system is down. The system is down. :lol: :lol:
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SSE - Screen Error..? (2 pics)
- Thread starter JonnyK
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Thank you Corrus :sohappy:
The system is down. The system is down. The system is down. :lol: :lol:
If you look at the other thread in here, you will see photos someone snapped of their car rebooting...XP
True Knowledge
New Member
"The LED video display is run by a Pentium II server running Windows 95/8 using a Serial ATA drive. There are two servers constantly running the same programs at the same time for fail-safe support. If one goes down, they can instantly switch to the other server which presumably will still be running. The video control software, written by Brian Seekford (now CEO of Seekford Solutions, Inc.) for Hitech Electronic Displays of Clearwater, Florida, communicates with on-board PLC's using two interfaces. The serial interface is used to receive the 4 character command codes separated by spaces to signify the end of each command. The NIDAQ (National Instrument Data Acquisition) card is used to provide status back to the PLC's. There are 8 optically isolated status channels. One channel is used to provide a heartbeat signal to tell the PLC that the software is on and functioning. The software was called QuickCon Multimedia Presenter. It was originally so named because it used the Quicktime engine, but was modified to use the Windows Media Player engine. The file formats are uncompressed AVI's passed through a masking filter to put the pixels in the spots for the countries."I find that to be believable, given when ROE was being developed.
Remember, the computer behind it is just a controller. So if it did BSOD, hopefully it would reboot. Sure, maybe it takes 5 minutes to reboot, but all that would happen is the show would pause. And if it BSOD'd at the right time, who knows, maybe you would never know. Maybe the globe would flash some (seemingly) random flashes, but I really doubt you'd SEE the BSOD on the globe. Of course, not knowing how it was implemented, now way to know.
Most of the problems people have with Windows can be traced back to a couple things. Buggy drivers, buggy software, buggy users. People who install software they shouldn't, people who don't know what they are doing, people who click on links and shouldn't, or there is no real protection running on the machine, tend to be most of it. Oh, and the overly bloated Windows Registry. The WR is a huge issue too. One that doesn't come into play until the other issues bring it up.
I would kind of assume that the earth globe probably has a few micro-controllers inside, and the Windows 95/98/whatever machine is just there to keep feeding instructions to them, and keep the globe in sync with the rest of the show. Since the computer doesn't have a connection with the outside world except for the main computer controlling the show, shouldn't be an issue. Of course, maybe it does have an outside connection, and then I stop taking bets.
I think you're 100% correct about windows and it's errors, most of the times there not flukes and the user has something do do with it.
Not saying it's a GodOS, immune to all errors or anything....
LOL, that was a complete geek moment. I understood that, but I bet more than 75% of the people on this forum will read that and go "huh"?:lol:
blm07
Active Member
The icons are from XP as well. It looks like they used the "Windows Classic" theme in display properties
For a second I though I saw GLaDOS in a post above.
Yeah but I'm with you in the 25% and I loved it....anyone else have any other geeky tidbits to share? :sohappy:
The icons are from XP as well. It looks like they used the "Windows Classic" theme in display properties
I thought the same thing for a while then i took a closer look and i think like someone mentioned before my above post, I think it very well might be server 2003 which looks exactly like XP with a classic start menu except a little different which I think could be this....then again it could be the SSE build of any of those kernels and they choose to emulate whatever they want....in which case we are just being geeks for geeks sake and we are all wrong....:lol:
EPCOT Explorer
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Yeah...I totally got that...
:lookaroun
LOL.Still it is cool to see the inner workings of SSE.Could you use the touch screens to navagate around the PC?THat woulda been cool.
I <3 my MacBook BTW.
Tigger2000
New Member
are you kidding me? Or was that sarcasm lol... I can never tell online, yes I'm useless I know...
anywayysss... back to what I was saying, are you kididng me? Macs are like practically Industry standard for Graphic Design, Even when I was doing my 2 years at college we had a mac suite, possibly the only one in like the North East of England haha, but still..
And on the subject of Macs, I'm surprised Apple hasn't created some sort of specific ride hardware or software considering Steve Jobs is like the largest Shareholder in Disney... I'm still waiting for my Mickey themed iMac haha!
Can't wait to have enough money to buy a PowerMac though...
And I have to totally agree with that, I think that's possibly the best comparison ever lol.