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Microsoft Robots to Watch Kids

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-I-sleep-the-robot-will-get-me dept.

Archangel Michael writes "Microsoft announced today that is testing a new toy / robot to watch over kids. My question is, if the toy BSOD does it take the kid with it? Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids! When will it end?"

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  1. Re:BSOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windows 2000 was easier to get to BSOD than even the first Windows 95, or (shudder) Win32s.

    C:\> ping localhost [enter] [F7] [enter] [f7] [enter] [f7] [enter]

    STOP CONDITION...

    Not fixed until SP4 (or was it 6?)...

    But yeah, I haven't seen XP BSOD without turning off "immidiately reboot on crash" either :-)

  2. Re:BSOD by fizze · · Score: 5, Informative

    Windows-XP has a "feature" (???) with which it is possible to manually crash a system by simply holding the right CTRL key and pressing the "Scroll Lock" key twice. This feature can be turned on by the following steps:

    1. Start regedit. (If you are unfamiliar with regedit, please refer to this FAQ)
    2. Navigate to:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\S ervic es\i8042prt\Parameters
    3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll
    4. Right-click on this newly created value and click on Modify
    5. Enter 1 in the Value data field and click on OK.
    6. Close regedit and reboot your system.
    7. Now you can blue screen (crash) your system by holding the right CTRL key and pressing "Scroll Lock" twice.

    Note:

    Your system may reboot or show a blue screen whenever this crash is initiated. If your system reboots after initiating the crash, and you want to see the blue screen, follow these steps:

    1. Go to Control Panel > System
    2. Click on the Advanced tab
    3. Under Startup and Recovery, click the Settings button.
    4. Under System failure, uncheck the option Automatically restart.

    Happy crashing...

    cudos to http://www.tweakxp.com/article140073.aspx

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  3. Re:Look, he made a BSOD joke! He's funny AND origi by fanblade · · Score: 3, Informative

    Talk about misleading articles. The summary implies the thing watches your kids, gets up and shouts, "ur kid has been pwned!!" and continues to carry him off somewhere.

    Then I RTFA and see it's a baby monitoring device. Everyone can simma down nah.

  4. Re:agh by sootman · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dead horse? This is a Microsoft thread, not a BSD one. :-)

    Besides, this isn't just old news. It still happens.

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