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We just walked into the Nashville Airport and this very visible info screen had a lovely "recovered from a serious error" message for all to see. And I now know they use VNC for remote access and that their anti-virus isn't configured with Windows Security Center ... etc
You'd think they'd just turn the monitor off rather than display a big error message ... this is just bad form ... and makes a poor impression.
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Try port 5900 and password as 'password'. At the rate they are going, you are bound to get in. Enjoy. :)
Posted by: David Russell | September 16, 2007 at 11:52 AM
I saw that too... and I left on Friday afternoon around 3pm. The only difference you see there is they actually logged in. When I saw it on Friday afternoon it was at a login prompt with a really nasty Windows error on the screen. At least they logged in between Friday and Sunday.
Posted by: Dean Lisenby | September 16, 2007 at 10:09 PM
WOW! 2 days later and it's still an eye sore! That's such bad form.
Posted by: Jason Powell | September 17, 2007 at 12:54 AM
Could be that the Airport IT Dept. is under staffed at the moment, and has bigger security threats to take care, so they don't have time to turn things off and make things look pretty. :-) Just a thought.
Posted by: Someone | September 17, 2007 at 05:51 PM
I've seen similar errors here at the Indianapolis airport in the past. It's been a few years though, but they might have been even worse, can't remember. Oh well, can any airport get this right? Is any airport running Linux? :-)
Posted by: David Szpunar | September 17, 2007 at 06:17 PM
In my opinion there is no excuse to have this visible to all their customers. Simply turn the monitor off! This is not necessarily an IT problem at the core ... it's more of a PR problem.
And they've just exposed security holes now that everyone knows their using VNC.
Understaffed or not ... no excuse for 1 of the thousands of employees to not power off the monitor :-)
Posted by: Jason Powell | September 17, 2007 at 06:23 PM
Worse yet, I recently saw a display monitor at an airport that was displaying the Windows 98 logo and an error message.
Posted by: Kevin | September 20, 2007 at 03:34 PM
I was in the Nashville airport the very next day and didn't see that. Must have either turned it off or corrected it by then.
I was just ticked this past Friday when I had a couple hours to kill waiting for my flight in that same airport and discovered they don't have free wifi. Oh well, I guess that's what books are for.
Posted by: Jim Walton | September 24, 2007 at 12:02 PM
Gee, they should use something more reliable - like XML on Gentoo.
Posted by: LiveSigns | July 26, 2008 at 11:16 PM