View Full Version : That Hotel OS?
elfqrin
10-15-2006, 06:37 PM
I went to a hotel and they had this computer there but it was running windows in the backround...but it wouldn't let you get to start or anything there were like buttons that said. run ms word or surf the web or something---and you couldn't controll alt delete it so you couldn't really get out of it...how did they do this? do you understan that i mean?
jdhore
10-15-2006, 07:04 PM
there are applications called Kiosk applications that do it...learn to use Google, kid
elfqrin
10-15-2006, 07:08 PM
but dude i didn't know what to put in the google thing
darknessgp
10-16-2006, 06:34 AM
All it is is limiting user access... do you honestly think all computers would be running as admin/root?
simon
10-16-2006, 11:07 AM
do you honestly think all computers would be running as admin/root?
I read a 2600 article a few issues ago where someone found that the Kodak photo kiosks do in fact have stupid default admin passwords.
It really wouldn't suprise me if some hotel kiosks did the same - we can usually rely on human stupidity.
jdhore
10-16-2006, 03:50 PM
I read a 2600 article a few issues ago where someone found that the Kodak photo kiosks do in fact have stupid default admin passwords.
It really wouldn't suprise me if some hotel kiosks did the same - we can usually rely on human stupidity.
The Kodak photo kiosks are also runnine either a distro of Linux or Windows 2000...a friend of mine has "hacked" the Windows 2000 models...oh, and it is very likely the hotel could be running as admin, but you'd have to figure out the password to exit their kiosk app which may or may not be so easy.