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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. Re:In fairness to software engineering by jeremyp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As somebody who has written a bad device driver for Mac OSX I can confirm that a bad driver can and frequently has crashed my OS X kernel.

    OS X is based on a microkernel, but in practice it is as monolithic as Linux or BSD.

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  2. Re:well by fishbowl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    >They are covered up well, quickly fixed, or not noticed, but they are there

    I learned this when I saw a circus fire and noticed that the clowns put the fire out while making it look like part of the act. It was both comforting and frightening at the same time.

     

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