[ILUG] E-voting as dead as a Norwegian Blue

[Paul Mullen]

I believe they all run HP-UX on PA RISC.

moylan wrote:
> i remember seeing a picture of them back when they were shiny and new.
> looked like hp vectras to me.  we sold the same type.  piii 800mhz systems
> iirc.
>
> moylan
>
> 2009/4/23 Andrew Court <syklops at gmail.com>
>
>   
>> As well as costing 50 million, they also then occupied the air accident
>> investigation building at a certain airbase in Ireland, which meant the air
>> accident team had to rent premises, costing even more money.
>> Can I assume the machines are basically PC's, with a proprietary OS on
>> them?
>> If so, should we maybe campaign that the machines are donated to, for
>> example, the camara project, so they can install linux on them and use
>> them,
>> or do you think the voting machines use proprietary hardware aswell?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM, David Howe <david.howe at howesystems.com
>>     
>>> wrote:
>>>       
>>> The decision to dispose of the contentious E-voting machines was rubber
>>> stamped today.
>>>
>>> After wasting €50m on a system whose source code was proprietary and
>>>       
>> could
>>     
>>> not be examined and verified by independent experts, the "powers that be"
>>> have pulled the plug on the Dutch heaps of junk.
>>>
>>> A great day for democracy.
>>> --
>>> David Howe
>>> Managing Director
>>> Howe Systems Limited-"protecting your data"
>>> Tel: +353 402 93030
>>> Mob: +353 86 328 2903
>>> Registered Address: Rock Big, Arklow, County Wicklow
>>> Place of Registration: Dublin, Ireland.
>>> Company Registration Number:399359
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Irish Linux Users' Group mailing list
>>> About this list : http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug
>>> Who we are : http://www.linux.ie/
>>> Where we are : http://www.linux.ie/map/
>>>
>>>       
>> --
>> Irish Linux Users' Group mailing list
>> About this list : http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug
>> Who we are : http://www.linux.ie/
>> Where we are : http://www.linux.ie/map/
>>
>>     
>
>
>
>