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BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies
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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Really, way to go Microsoft, advertise your incompetence to the whole world in an even bigger setting than that famous keynote.
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It looks like a DOS/Shell bootup message....
Dont know, switched to MAC, dont have those issues anymore. I pay Apple alot of money to ensure no BSODs.
In fairness to software engineering, if the "bad" hardware driver can crash the system, then the system is not ready for production and has more than a few show-stopping (no pun intended) bugs. Take a look at basic kernel or micro-kernel design principles and stop spreading the view that catastrophically bad design is acceptable.
You're right. Linux sucks!!!
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.
You're kidding right? If not, you might want to ease up on the Kool Aid a bit.
Took me a while but I think I decoded the message. It says:
This copy of Windows XP is not Genuine. To use all Microsoft Windows Features your copy must be validated. Go online and resolve now.
I've seen system-crashing bugs happen in OSX, too. Except that it was made to look purdy, though you couldn't do anything other than unplug the whole deal, and then restart it.
At the Apple store at Valley Fair in San Jose I always manage to crash any Mac I use within 5 minutes by running programs or opening images and resizing them in the default viewer. Maybe the hardware in the store is the bad stuff or the power is very dirty, but it's been like that for years.
And it's not pretty, it usually just reboots on its own with no warning.
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hmmm.. then I guess it's time for you to expand your universe.. just use google, and you'll see Linux crashes just as much... but then again, I guess you are just blinded by your hatret for MS..
In fairness to Microsoft, blue screens are normally due to bad hardware drivers.
Um... A hardware driver may have special privileges, but it should not be capable of bringing down the operating system upon which it runs any more than any other application could. If it causes anything more than an inconvenience, then you have a bad OS design. The fact that a bad driver can cause XP to blue screen leads to only one conclusion.
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Stop using "it's" when you mean "its", both of you over there!
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That joke format is old and retarded. If you're still young, you're halfway there.
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Well NT only partialy fixed this. Otherwise, rebooting your system after each PATCH would NOT be necessary; you would only need to restart the service. Also, safemode does show required services but unfortunately... far too much is required where it truly is not. Can you get rid of the GUI, can you get rid of Explorer, can you get rid of the mediaPlayer? Some say yes but in actuality you dont because they are still there and running. Are these crucials processes to running a server? No but can you shut them down? Hell no... and will they crash your system or cause a backdoor to be opened in your system? Hell yes.
By tying everything together, they actually made the system more easy to market and sell other products but NOT more easy to secure or stabilize.
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i think we all know here what a scheduler is. your problem with using one of the linux kernel schedulers in a windows kernel would be in decompiling the windows kernel. apart from that, everything is just a lot of work, but possible.
calling the huge technical difficulty of implementing ntfs and a specific chkdsk for it a design flaw is maybe the wrong choice of words. microsoft is just going out of their way (as ever) to make sure that nobody else can interoperate, while gnu/linux bends over backwards to make interoperability as easy as possible.