Tim Priebe - timjpriebe.com » linux http://www.timjpriebe.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:55:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Redbox rebooting http://www.timjpriebe.com/2009/09/07/redbox-rebooting/ http://www.timjpriebe.com/2009/09/07/redbox-rebooting/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:09:44 +0000 Tim Priebe http://www.timjpriebe.com/?p=24 Sadly, my very first post wasn’t quite nerdy awesome enough to accurately represent me, so I’m reposting something I put on my family blog, ThePriebes.com, earlier this year. Back in January, Brent Fuchs and I happened to be at a Redbox right at 1am, and found it rebooting automatically. Cool stuff, even though it didn’t have our movie.

Windows logo right after the Dell logo This warning was the wallpaper APC starting up Final screen before the normal program

Since I posted this originally, I’ve talked to a guy who works for Redbox, and he assures me they’re all Dell computers. Kind of makes you wonder why they didn’t go with a Linux distro like Ubuntu. Probably would have saved them thousands and thousands of dollars.

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