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Microsoft's Technical Glitches at CES Explained
Thomas Hawk writes "Sean Alexander is one of the guys on the Media Center Team at Microsoft who was involved in the CES presentation with Bill Gates. Sean also runs a very interesting blog called Addicted to Digital Media. Gates and Microsoft have taken a lot of heat over the course of the last two days for the technical glitches in Microsoft's presentation at CES. Sean offers us the rare glimpse on why the glitches happened and what it's like to be backstage at the big Microsoft presentation at CES. Very good follow up on Sean's part." Update: 01/08 19:03 GMT by T : Hawk writes with a static link to Alexander's story.
only on slashdot can an infra-red receiver not working because of too much light interference become mishmashed into 'windows being so unstable that an IR receiver can take down the kernel'. you really are an idiot. the machine worked fine. sean alexander used the same machine to do his presentation. bill gates was simply using another IR receiver so that he didnt have to twist around and point his remote at the setup on the other side of the stage. if you read the article, you'd notice sean mention that as he walked on stage to do his presentation, he unplugged bill's IR receiver, just to make sure that it didnt cause any other problems. there was absolutely nothing wrong with the software during the presentation. how many /. readers actually know that no software crashed during the show? i'd imagine very few, after the great big 'haha media center crashes during bill gates presentation' article the other day.
go back to your cave, troll, until you provide proof of the IR receiver taking down the kernel, as you implied. i think you are the one who should grow a brain before typing.
> I don't think this is FC3's fault here; sounds like you're
> missing some config detail that is keeping you from connecting.
Well, of course it is! "Missing some config detail" is what pretty much all Linux problems come down to. And it's really sad that Linux programmers still have not figured out how to default sensibly (for a desktop user, not a server guru) nor how to write options dialogs. So all Linux programs have their ugly text configuration files which require hundreds of manual pages to describe every possible configuration option without giving a single example of what should be the most common setup (a home user on a personal desktop).
The terms, "Conan O'Brian" and "classic humour" should never be combined.*
True. Humor spelled with a 'U' is French, and Conan is not. Coincidentally the British also spell it in the French manor, I can only imagine because I think they're proud of being once taken over by the Normans.