Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage
Coca-Cola signage is running out of storage
BORK!BORK!BORK! Are you a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty person? Some distressed digital signage on the island of São Miguel in Portugal's Azores is running on empty, judging by today's entry into the files of signage silage.
Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader, a Coca-Cola display has clearly had too much of the carbonated beverage and urgently needs to free up some space, a feeling many an over-caffeinated techie will be familiar with after chugging one Diet Coke too many.
It's tricky to work out what operating system is running behind the scenes. Running Windows with 200 MB or so of disk space is only for the brave (or foolhardy), but we suspect this might be Ubuntu Unity warning onlookers that the volume is fit to burst. While there is an option to ignore the message (assuming the viewer can find somewhere to plug in...
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