Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out
Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM
BORK!BORK!BORK! It's not all sunshine and Pastel de nata in Portugal. Behind the hundreds of ways of cooking fish and bottles of sweet, fortified wine lurks our old friend – a BIOS screen misbehaving in a window.
Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Mário in Lisbon, the digital sign looking out on the street from a branch of Banco CTT looks like it is in imminent danger of a storage failure. The "S.M.A.R.T. Status Bad" indicates that something has made the storage media (hard drive or SSD) unhappy, and Banco CTT should take a break from flogging financial services to replace the unit before it fails completely.
A jab of a key should allow the digital sign to continue doing its thing, and there is some computer hardware in the background that we're sure an enterprising Reg reader could...
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