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BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the beacuse-its-august dept.

Whiteox writes "A BSOD was projected onto the roof of the National Stadium during the grand finale to the four-hour spectacular at the Olympics. Lenovo chairman Yang Yuanqing chose to go with XP instead of Vista because of the complexity of the IT functions at the Games. His comment on Vista? 'If it's not stable, it could have some problems,' he said. Evidently Bill Gates attended the opening ceremony, so he must have witnessed it."

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  1. well by thermian · · Score: 5, Funny

    They paid 40 billion for that ceremony. I can't see this improving their opinion of Microsoft much.

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    1. Re:well by baldass_newbie · · Score: 5, Funny

      They paid 40 billion for that ceremony.

      But was it a pirated copy of Windows?

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    2. Re:well by mweather · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's the Chinese Olympics. What do you think?

    3. Re:well by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's no excuse. No installation of Linux has ever crashed in the history of the universe. Microsoft should be held to no less a standard.

    4. Re:well by TechnoBunny · · Score: 5, Funny

      'In fairness to Microsoft'

      What are you, some kind of shill?

    5. Re:well by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 5, Funny

      A Linux installation crashes if and only if it doesn't respect it's user.

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    6. Re:well by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

      exactly I hate this crap from Microsoft. It should be able to do like Linux and when there's a hardware problem it just reroutes power through the main deflector to fix it.

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    7. Re:well by omeomi · · Score: 5, Funny

      there is an option to turn off rebooting on blue screen. It comes in handy if you actually want to see the error ...

      And you feel that this is one of those instances?

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    8. Re:well by kesuki · · Score: 5, Funny

      next thing you'll be telling me BSD never gets hacked unless it's playing a prank on it's admin.

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    9. Re:well by Barsteward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Are you sure its not "People's Republic in China" i.e. PRiC :o)

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    10. Re:well by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

      next thing you'll be telling me BSD never gets hacked unless it's playing a prank on it's admin.

      BSD never gets hacked unless it's playing a prank on it's admin.

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    11. Re:well by mattwarden · · Score: 5, Funny

      Macs only crash when you use the grammatically incorrect version of i

  2. Here's a game by PJCRP · · Score: 5, Funny

    10 points to the first person to can say what went wrong :U

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  3. omg! Proof! by urcreepyneighbor · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're living in the Matrix! And the Matrix runs Windows!

    No wonder my life is a pile of shit. :)

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    1. Re:omg! Proof! by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 5, Funny

      You are about to bend a spoon.

      Cancel or Allow?

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    2. Re:omg! Proof! by dubbreak · · Score: 5, Funny

      There is no spoon...
      Abort,Retry,Fail

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  4. Re:Eh, so what? by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "All computers crash - I've made Linux, BSD, OSX, and Solaris machines kernel panic. Hell, I've witnessed a newer zSeries mainframe crash."

    And you seem so proud of that. The goal is to make the systems function, not crash.

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  5. Re:Bill was there? by JCSoRocks · · Score: 5, Funny

    He probably cackled maniacally and shouted over the top of the fireworks, "I made that screen blue! Bill Gates owns the Olympics! Maybe if you dirty pirates had bought a legitimate copy it would have worked better!"

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  6. Re:Might as well get used to it by Swizec · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just hope someday I'm not driving down the street and see a "lost connection to server" message flashing instead of The Reality!

    That would totally freak me out.

  7. Re:Eh, so what? by db32 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But so few fail in such a spectacular fashion. I have never seen a kernel panic delivered in anything other than terminal font on a black and white screen. The BSOD is called the BSOD because MS, in their infinite wisdom, opened themselves up to such a joke by deciding to deliver critical system messages with a "calming" blue background and white text. And then doing so very very frequently in the early days.

    Honestly, they should just make it a black screen with some fireworks and a "Congratulations, You Crashed Windows Again!". You know, make it a more positive experience for the user.

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  8. Re:Eh, so what? by nedlohs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not if you are in QA/testing...

  9. Re:What's their motivation.... by mhall119 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good point, Windows should identify the offending driver, read it's manufacturer info, then shame the creator on the BSoD.

    "A fatal exception has occurred because CheapHardware's Crappy802.11g device driver was written by mildly retarded gibbons."

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  10. Re:In fairness to software engineering by kwabbles · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a basic design flaw in how normal computers operate that requires this sort of behavior from kernels, which leads to bad drivers affecting them. If you can name one system ready for general purpose for which this isn't true I would love to hear about it.

    GNU Hurd

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  11. Re:Eh, so what? by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

    All computers crash - I've made Linux, BSD, OSX, and Solaris machines kernel panic. Hell, I've witnessed a newer zSeries mainframe crash.

    You are not invited into my house anymore.

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  12. obvious justification: brand identity by Narcocide · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...after all, if it had just done its job flawlessly there'd be no way for the crowd to know it was a microsoft product.