I've got the power! Or have I? Uninterruptible Phone-disposal Stuffup
- Reference: 1617271806
- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/04/01/bork/
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The kiosk in question lurks within the Lehigh Valley Mall, in Pennsylvania, USA. A nice part of the world located near the city of Allentown and not far from the ambitiously titled Lehigh Valley International Airport.
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Lehigh Valley Mall in Allentown, PA
We recall that very airport before Allentown was removed from its name and replaced with Lehigh Valley, and we still well remember the delight at discovering it was possible, according to the travel company, to fly from there back to the UK (this was during the last century, we hasten to add.)
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Imagine our delight, therefore, when we pitched up, checked in our bags and boarded a bus to take us to the aircraft. Which it did. On a bone-crunching 90-minute road-trip to Newark Airport in the state of New Jersey.
Happy days. Still, at least nearby there was a "World Famous" bar and grill to amuse, which was neither world famous nor, to be honest, much of a bar.
Times have moved on but bork is ever constant, and today's installment of mall mayhem is centred on an ecoATM, a device designed to take unwanted smartphones and handout payment to customers without the need to trouble a salesperson.
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It's a neat device and the [5]manufacturer modestly states "we continue to do our small part in reducing rubbish across the world."
If only the same care and attention were lavished on this particular bit of ATM hardware. Aside from a version of Windows that we suspect predates many of the phones likely to be shoved into the machine's maw, it looks very much like the APC PowerChute Business Edition service is having a bad day. Without looking at the event logs, an exact diagnosis is tricky.
Our reader stopped short of jabbing the screen himself.
However, the stopping of the agent isn't going to help the management of whatever Uninterruptible Power Supply is lurking within the green box. The result, we hope, will be no worse than the discovery that an unmanaged UPS might let one down when most needed.
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After all, nobody wants a kiosk full of old phones [7]doing an OVH . ®
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US airports that brand themselves 'International'
What's worse are those American organisations that call themselves "international" but operate only within the US.
Re: US airports that brand themselves 'International'
Chug-a-lug-a-lug at five miles per hour,
On my International Harvester!
Re: US airports that brand themselves 'International'
To be fair International Harvester was international. We've got an International 885 XL tractor on the farm that was proudly* assembled in Doncaster...
*indifferently
Years ago I used to holiday frequently in the NW of Ireland, near "Carrickfinn airfield", a small grass-airstrip place in the middle of nowhere where you had to book the fire brigade from the local town to come out & wait when a plane was due in.
Some years later I was surprised to find it had become "Donegal International Airport", tarmac strip, fence, terminal building, the works. It was "international" because of the weekly flight to Glasgow. Pork barrel politics at its best.
"Doing an OVH"
Finally, a new expression to add to the Reg collection.
Re: "Doing an OVH"
Having started with DOS I find that I'm pronouncing "OVH" as "Over", as in: "OVH Done", "OVH Cooked", "OVH Heated", "This relationship is OVH", etc.
OVH and out.
Re: "Doing an OVH"
Roger.
...Huh?
Re: "Doing an OVH"
You've got clearance, Clarence.
I love the US airports that brand themselves with the name of a city 100 miles away
Like Orlando-Melbourne international airport, which is nowhere near Orlando.
Like Orlando-Sanford international airport, which is closer, but still nowhere near Orlando.
I keep having people fly in, and have to tell them "sorry mate, you're going to have to pay one hell of a taxi fare" and "no, I'm not going to pick you up"
Re: I love the US airports that brand themselves with the name of a city 100 miles away
Or like "Paris Vatry", beloved of Aer O'Flot, which is halfway between Reims and Troyes, and a good 100miles from Paris.
Buses
a bus to take us to the aircraft. Which it did. On a bone-crunching 90-minute road-trip
I remember getting a BA flight from Ottawa to London which had a connection in Montreal. The Ottawa-Montreal leg was a 2-hour bus journey, which had a flight number (and for which I got airmiles!).
"doing an OVH"
Ouhhh burn ! (pun intended)
I have the distinct feeling that that is an expression that is going to become part of the El Reg vernacular, if not part of the Urban Dictionary.
Well played !
I love the local US airports that brand themselves 'International' because there's one flight a week to Canada (or Mexico if they're in the south).