On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Patrick Kelly wrote: > On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Jorden Mauro wrote: >> >> The coffee pot runs windows and there is a virus that causes Coffee >>> Denial of Service on it. >>> >> >> That, of course, would be the very most worstcase that can ever happen ;-) >> > > I doubt anyone would be foolish enough to put an 80x86 in a coffee machine. > Yes you could run WinCE, but without the 80x86 your not going to suffer from > the hoards of virus's. > > I'd like to see the day someone gets Linux or NetBSD booting on a coffee > machine. > > Toasters are at least finished... http://netbsd.org/gallery/in-Action/riz-toaster.jpg > >> cu >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ >> >> phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@metux.de >> mobile: +49 174 7066481 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > -- And in the "Only Prolog programmers will find this funny" department: Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: No. -- Ovid "By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense." "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre." "This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures" -- Heraclitus