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[ILUG] WIT SMARTCARDS

[ILUG] WIT SMARTCARDS

John Ronan j0n at tssg.wit.ie
Thu Oct 28 17:28:58 IST 1999


On 28-Oct-99 Bernard Tyers wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just looking for information and giving some..
> For those of you not in Waterford, WIT have introduced SMARTCARDS (i.e.
> allowing students not to carry money, except in smatr card form...for
> photocopiers/ shops/bank/ phones etc)....
> 
> Anyway, the controllers for the photocopiers are running a slimed down
> linux kernel.
> i was shocked when i saw LILO: Linux booting one morning...
> 
> anyone from WIT want to comment on it, and say if it is used any where
> else? 
Hmmm I can't comment on it... but we must have a go at getting a
shell^H^H^H^H^H^ look at it one of these days...


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John Ronan <j0n at tssg.wit.ie>, +353-51-302411
Telecommunications Software Systems Group - WIT, http://www.tssg.wit.ie

Men are like.....Parking spots.
The good ones are taken, and the rest are too small.

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