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Snapped up by Flickr photog Mike G., this is the new system that replaced the "unreliable" OS/2 system.
Let the hair pulling start...now.
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Did anyone else see this? This is shameful!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11
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HA HA! SFMTA is using the flash plugin within internet explorer as a critical systems application. What freakin maroons.
If you cared to look, they're not using it within IE, and I doubt Flash is used for anything but the top UI layer, hardly a critical system component.
Also, what you're seeing is Microsoft's product working correctly (denying access to a restricted memory location). Blame rests with either whoever made the Flash application or Adobe; I'd guess the former.
The displays for the "unreliable" OS/2 system work as one big generated image which was then displayed (auto-refreshing) in a full-screened browser. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/qviri/3067051215/
And man that's a lot of J-Churches.
When it comes to taxpayers and transportation, good customer service and setting expectations, the UI display is definitely a critical system.
This system hasn't really replaced anything, has it? I'm fairly certain it's just a nicer skin for MUNI's outdated Alcatel OS/2-based system which still actually controls underground train traffic (the Alcatel screenshot is visible at http://www.sfmunicentral.com/sfmunicentral_Snapshot_Objects/Muni_Subway_Snapshot.html)
(Maybe MUNI should upgrade to a system administered by the Oakland liquor store that shares a name with their current vendor?)
This is just a Flash frontend to NextMuni, which is still in beta. It has nothing to do with the train control system which still runs the same software it always did.
What this replaced was a full-screen Internet Explorer running on Windows displaying a web page containing the screengrab of the train control system display that refreshes every five seconds. I suspect that this is unreliable only because the software they're using to upload the image just overwrites the existing image, so if you catch it wrong you get it mid-upload when the image is corrupted.
These on-platform screens have never run on anything other than Windows.
If you want proof that the Subway itself is still running on the same old software, check out the control room at Embarcadero Station as you come in on an inbound train... you can see the real display that sfmunicentral is (and the on-platform refreshing maps are) capturing.
Flash crashes on every single platform, in every browser it is available for. It crashed my Linux Firefox Browser every single time I visit fleshbot.com, then again that might be some sort of work add-on.
No surprises here.
What? You mean to say that Flash is utter, unreliable, bloated crap? Imagine my surprise!
Doomed.
Many of our aircraft carriers run on Windows as well.
Hella doomed.
Exactly. Should have been using assembly on an 6502 for old school robustness. Think of the savings just in memory alone! Irresponsible use of tax dollars.
Well, you pay your IT staff $100,000 per year, you get what you pay for:
http://agency.governmentjobs.com/sfmuni/default.cfm?SearchLetter=I&action=agencyspecs&AgencyID=474
those new displays are dope - when they work. you can see how spoiled N-judah riders really are.