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Public BSOD Sightings?
Sanksa Wott asks: "My travels over the weekend brought me to a very popular fast food restaurant, where, in the drive-through I was greeted with, what else... a blue screen! Since BSOD's can show up almost anywhere, I thought I would ask: 'What has your funniest/most interesting/noteworthy/etc. encounter with public displays of the BSOD been like?' Note: This isn't meant to be a troll, so lets be nice ;)"
My personal favorite BSOD is the one where Bill Gates was doing a keynote showing off the new features of Windows 98 and it crashed on a massive screen in front of hundreds of people.
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I would expect such blatant racism on Fark, but on Slashdot? Mods please ban this asshole.
This one time, at band camp...
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Where I'm from, you can go to jail for that stuff.
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The computer model was human high-school female type, and the human assistant was a manager.
C:\>
I made sure to snap a pic of it to remember my trip home from Hawaii.
Lets see...
I've seen a BSOD on the local access cable channel.
I've seen a BSOD on the ATM at defcon (sorta. Wasn't really blue, but it was a major crash)
The best, though by far was when I went to Target and they had 3 consoles set up side by side. X-Box on the left, PS2 in the center, and GameCube on the right. The PS2 and GameCube were working just fine, demoing Tony Hawk and StarFox I think. The X-Box on the other hand was sitting there at a Black-Screen-Of-Death that was the same as a BSOD only black. (wow! great upgrade, Microsoft! No more Blue Screen of Death!) That really says a lot about the comparative reliability of those three systems. I'm glad Target was kind enough to provide the public with this demonstration: comparison shopping it its best!
At the top-10 American university I go to, there's a big plasma screen behind the main information desk that shows a slideshow of school events.
Imagine my surprise when, one day, the screen informs me that I can get a
U.N.I.V.E.R.S.I.T.Y D.I.P.L.O.M.A
from home, courtesy of Windows Messenger!
Many of the pumps at Texaco stations have 4 or 5 inch lcd screen that is used for the display for such things as "Pay at the pump". After processing customer's credit information and gas grade selections the pumps displayed a looped video advertising various what not. In the midst of the loop was a BSOD that was displayed for some 30 seconds before the loop continued on.
The funniest part was that the pump itself was not blue screening. The BSOD was actually part of the looped video clip. The loop was displayed on all of Texaco's pumps with display screens, across the entire US for several months.
people like you should be locked up!!!
Attendant: Um, sir what are you doing?
:)
You: Well, I just though I'd make my reservations online....
Good One!!
-CowboyNick
The info system for the Danish rail-system runs windows. One of the screens shows the arrival times, and one day it also noted a print job, that was stalled, because the ink jet printer had run out of paper.
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I saw this around 2 pm, and the warning was from 9 am. The day before
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
One of my friends and I got talking about this the other day. The best one we came up with was one of his teachers was driving down the Vagas strip and one of the large billbords BSOD'd. He almost got in an accident he was laughing so hard.
Another story, though not a true BSOD. Our cable tv guide station here at Michigan Tech desplayed and error and asked to be rebooted for about a week before anything was done about it. So no one knew what was on and had to look at windows errors for a week.
GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT
I once saw the on screen scrolling Guide (now owned by TV Guide) crash and it was sitting at an AmigaDOS console prompt.
:)
One time, at 3 AM, I was surfing, and when I got to the TV Guide channel, what did I see? A MacOS 9 desktop, with some pebbles as the desktop wallpaper. I must have watched that sit there doing nothing for 2 hours before the mouse started to move and then I got to watch some guy launch the TVGuide program
Hehe, you should've Goatse'd it and walked off.
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One of them is one of those "Virtual rollercoasters" where they put everyone in a hydraulic-powered set of theatre-seats, in front of a huge IMAX-like screen.
The coaster was neat, but it was running WINDOWS 3.1. It crashed. Biggest BSOD I've ever seen. Filled nearly my whole field of vision. Had to wait for it to reboot. Started over.
Basically we went on the ride twice because of that. Now, I DON'T "DO" ROLLERCOASTERS, and me & the wife wer both sick afterwards. We laid down on the floor of the promenade. Eventually some statues came to life and started battling and we woke up in the front row. It was neat.
I like stories.
-Clio
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It's easy to do. NYC is abundant with BSOD's. :) Time's square, Macy's and all those Taxi Cabs with the screens on top of them.
This one is always a family favourite.
/. family anyways.
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Caught this one in Heathrow on my way back from Paris last April.