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by tapp 3736 days ago
Agree that it's simultaneously fascinating and alarming.

Does anyone know what exactly this is?: http://vncroulette.com/images/176.64.166.110.jpg

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It's in Swedish, looks like a status display for the post-combustion part (smoke cleaning) of some industrial process, maybe cement production?

The worst one I've found so far is this

http://vncroulette.com/images/85.117.223.103.jpg

which appears to be controls for a small hydropower plant, also in Sweden.

A few other bad ones I spotted include lots of industrial refrigerators, small scale wind power (mainly German), an oil futures trading platform, a fire & gas alarm system control, and someone's Outlook open with some customer complaint emails.

Edit: oh, and there was a Tesco checkout register (although closed).

http://vncroulette.com/images/90.16.192.69.jpg

This seems like a French hydroelectric plant :/

Looks like that one also has start/stop controls (yellow square buttons top, left of centre)...
> Trust Chemists & Druggists

Well, not any more I don't...

This one seems like bunch of tanks attached to a pressure gauge. http://vncroulette.com/images/96.1.27.254.jpg
The checking subsystem of a Chilean flour factory it seems.
Did you contact the owners of the hydropower? May be a good idea.
Be aware some of these images have dates from >1 year ago. It might have been fixed a while ago.
There is also a browser with someone's facebook open.
Did you contact them?
account's last post was in May 2015 unfortunately
try cranking it up to 110%