The only time we exploded cans was by freezing or loading incorrectly. Occasionally we had the solenoids fail to fire, but that was solved easily by sshing into the soda machine and asking it to vend again.<p>When I was there, the machine controlling the soda machine was a Linux box running some old Debian with a 2.4 kernel, on VIA or some non-Intel&#x2F;AMD x86 processor, booting from iSCSI. Thankfully, it was upgraded when the machine was rebuilt. How much of this was around in your time there?<p>Nice work with it. Definitely a staple of the ACM office :)<p>edit: also, it survived a building move, so that&#x27;s pretty awesome.