Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance
The Windows command line is a marvelous thing, beloved by administrators, but not quite so welcome when you're trying to get a parcel out of a locker. Today's example of Windows behaving badly comes from Ireland and one of the nation's OOHPod postal lockers. An eagle-eyed Register reader, trying to retrieve a parcel, found the locker screen instead teasing a command prompt. For the uninitiated, OOHPod is a service where people retrieve and deposit goods in lockers. Scan your ID (or enter it on a touch screen) and the appropriate locker door springs open and the item (or items) can be retrieved. This all works, assuming whatever is running behind the scenes isn't having a bit of a moment, as our reader experienced. Instead of a welcoming display on the locker's screen, our reader found a blank screen and what looked suspiciously like a minimized command-line window. …
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