Posts Tagged airport

Now Departing – PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA

First off, in the words of Microsoft’s Zune “Hello From Seattle”.  If you don’t get that flip your Zune over on the back and see what it says :)   This week, I’m in Seattle for various things and as such, what does that imply?  Yep, I’m travelling again and when you travel, you have to go to airports.

Today’s selected airport of choice is a double post whammy.  Yep, they didn’t just have one issue, they had two, so a double dip of fun at none other than London’s new Heathrow Terminal 5.

All checked in with the new kiosk (although it did have difficulty reading my passport) – third time lucky – bag dropped at the desk and the attendant says to me “You’ll be departing out of the B Gates.  Watch the monitors for details”.  OK, no problem, go through security and have a Starbucks (as you do) and let’s have a look at the monitor:

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Hey, not to bad.  Here’s a close up for those of you interested in what’s wrong:

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You know what causes this most often?

This Stop message occurs when requested data is not found in memory. The system generates a fault, which normally indicates that the system looks for data in the paging file. In this circumstance, however, the missing data is identified as being located within an area of memory that cannot be paged out to disk. The system faults, but cannot find, the data and is unable to recover. Faulty hardware, a buggy system service, antivirus software, and a corrupted NTFS volume can all generate this type of error.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc957625.aspx

There’s also a tool called the Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) you might look at downloading as well which will further help you diagnose your problems…

Ok, no problem right.  Maybe it’s just one dodgy monitor that has decided to pack it in for the day.  Nope, even better yet, I go to the next bank of monitors and PRESTO:

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There she is again in all her glory!

So, Heathrow IT, you might just want to check TechNet!

Happy travels!  

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Vegas – The home of XP, DameWare, Messy Desktops, Java, Intel video cards and Sound

I love airports.  What else to do with your free time besides scout out all of the things that shouldn’t be done in public :)   I’ve been to Seattle, Gatwick, Southampton and now let’s take a look at what we can find in Vegas…

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What does the departures board say?  It says I’m running Windows XP and looking closer at the board doing the adverts next to it tells me:

  • They run a Java based dos client (DDC Java – version 1.6 even)
  • They use DameWare to remote control their devices (anyone want to sniff port 6129?)
  • They haven’t done too much with the desktop for 14 days as the clean desktop wizard is appearing
  • The have sound on their kisok machines (why?)
  • They are using the intel graphics chip set

Come on guys, I wouldn’t want to go gambling in your city with your IT staff…They’re showing their hands making it easy for the opponents to gauge them!

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Internet Kiosk Confusion 101

Lucky enough for those of you who don’t have a wireless device when you’re travelling, we’ve got Internet Kiosks which cost just short of a small city to use.  At any rate though, they’re these little babies:

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This one just happened to be in Southampton airport, and I wanted to take a minute and look at it.

- Dell machine advertising Samsung

- Windows 7 advertisement but the kiosk (as almost all do) runs some sort of its own OS and no where near resembles Windows 7

- A link to FREE websites on the side, which, when clicked on, brings up a payment screen?!

- A search engine that doesn’t return results (again a “FREE” perk of this kiosk)

OK, so maybe it’s me being critical again of technology (as it’s what I do every day) but lets not try to send too much of a misconstrued message to the public we want to captivate and utilise it more (i.e. those folks who don’t have laptops in tow and are our target market)…Hmm, maybe a rethink of our marketing strategy guys?

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