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London's BT Tower Broadcasted Windows 7 Error Message Over the Weekend (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by BeauHD on from the technical-difficulties dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Generally a system crash is a private affair, but the BT Tower, one of London's tallest landmarks, spent much of the weekend displaying a Windows error message in a very public fashion. The building, originally known as the Post Office Tower, is famed for both its revolving top floor and, more recently, for the banks of LEDs at its summit that act as a very prominent billboard. Sadly for BT over the weekend it was showing what looks very like a Windows 7 error screen. "Choose operating system to start or press TAB to select a tool: (Use arrow keys to highlight your choice and then press ENTER)."

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  1. Why aren't public displays monitored 24/7? by kriston · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The idea that massive public electronic displays like these aren't monitored by a human 24/7 is preposterous.

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    Kriston

    1. Re:Why aren't public displays monitored 24/7? by bobby · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The idea that massive public electronic displays like these aren't monitored by a human 24/7 is preposterous.

      It could be that someone who could have done something about it had noticed but let it stay that way. Maybe general cynicism, dislike of Yankee OSes, thought it was funny, maybe they wanted to switch to Linux but the boss forbade it.

    2. Re:Why aren't public displays monitored 24/7? by stealth_finger · · Score: 2, Interesting

      When traffic lights fail, car accidents can happen.

      When this board fails, people post gibberish on social media. No one is going to die or be maimed. I don't mind discussion - people should be interested in the world around them - but lets not lose our minds.

      Apart from the guy that gets rear ended by the person distracted by the giant gaping rear end?

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  2. Re:Queue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Interesting. I bet it wouldn't have been hacked like that had it been running Linux.

  3. BSOD in 2008 Olympics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, during the opening ceremonies, a BSOD was projected in large characters, on a wall of the Bird's Nest. But in contrast to the message in London, I doubt the BSOD in Beijing stayed up very long.