The Ultimate BSOD (blue screen of death)

[DainBramaged]

This is the marquee outside the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. The sign, which usually touts the various performances and buffet specials at the French-theme casino-hotel, was down all night and into the morning, casting its eerie Microsoft blue glow on the strip.


It's good to have an IT tech on staff at all times........

[Greyhound]

1. Damn, I missed it! Details? n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. This looks like something the Blue Man Group would have as part of their show, but with funny text.

[Odin2005]

3. *NELSON LAUGH*

HA-HA!!!

[Dennis Donovan]

4. B(lue)SOD has been replaced by the B(lack)SOD...

http://www.prevx.com/blog/140/Black-Screen-woes-could-affect-millions-on-Windows--Vista-and-XP.html

[DainBramaged]

6. They are backtracking like crazy on that one.........

Update: It appears that we've been had. According to Microsoft, the Black-Screen-of-Death is in no way related to recent patches released. The flaw apparently originates from within the registry and is likely caused by malware. Prevx, the security firm that originally reported the problem, has now begun furiously back-pedaling, and admitted that it did not contact Microsoft before publishing its "findings." The Internet Storm Center has said it "simply seeing any widespread 'black screen' issue," while BetaNews has gotten the cold shoulder, with "e-mails to known Prevx addresses bounced back this morning, as though no one were actually present at the firm."

With the slow death of Windows XP, the BSOD or Blue-Screen-of-Death, has quietly been disappearing from computers around the world. And we're sure Microsoft is very happy to see the problem, and its accompanying acronym, fade in to history. Sadly, any celebrating at Redmond appears to have been a bit premature; a recent set of security updates have unleashed a new version of the BSOD, in which the "B" stands for "black."

The Black-Screen-of-Death, where the desktop fails to fully load -- displaying only the cursor and sometimes a MyComputer window -- is currently being investigated by Microsoft. The bug affects Windows 7, Vista, and XP, and no particular trigger has been identified yet. Security firm Prevx has released a fix for the B(lack)SOD problem, but it doesn't work in all cases.

http://www.switched.com/2009/12/01/black-screen-of-death-problem-plagues-windows-users/

[dhpgetsit]

5. Even IT people have time off in France! :D

[DainBramaged]

7. This was in Las Vegas.......

:hi:

[trumad]

8. That's what they get for using PC based digital media.

[mogster]

9. Good story

Sorry, I unrecced this by mistake, was gonna do the opposite ;-)

[cliffordu]

10. I loves me some Windoze....

:rofl:

[Taitertots]

11. I guess they should have gotten a mac

but:
It would cost more than the billboard, won't run the program for the billboard, and only has one mouse button.