- Sun 05 February 2006
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Gotta love public transport running windows...
The contact-less system for checking in/out of the trams and subways. Out of order, as you can read. In French...
![Out of order Out of order](/~mbscholt/images/content/pt_weird_stuff/out_of_order.jpg)
The electronical ticket machine, for charging your chip based public transport pass:
![Ticket machine Ticket machine](/~mbscholt/images/content/pt_weird_stuff/ticket_machine.jpg)
Same machine, close up [gotta love their internationalization]:
![Out of order Out of order](/~mbscholt/images/content/pt_weird_stuff/ticket_machine_out_of_order.jpg)
Same machine, some days earlier [case was opened, computer was visible, as was a standard keyboard. Dialog reads: "Unsave removal of USB device"
![Unsave removal Unsave removal](/~mbscholt/images/content/pt_weird_stuff/unsave_removal.jpg)
The advertisement system in the new Combino trams [the error dialog was in German...]:
![Tram advertising system error Tram advertising system error](/~mbscholt/images/content/pt_weird_stuff/tram_advertising_error.jpg)
That system is Macromedia Flash based and is manually updated for every screen in the trams. Each tram has about 3 seperate machines [can be noticed when one of these crash ;)]