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That's Microsoft price: Now you can enjoy a BSOD from the comfort of your driving seat
The Register ^ | Nov 29, 2019 | Richard Speed

Posted on 11/29/2019 9:19:25 AM PST by dayglored

Windows struck down at Asda Click & Collect 'Drive Thru'

For the latest in The Register's sporadic series of Windows falling over in strange places, we present UK retailer Asda and its borked Click and Collect "Drive Thru" terminal.

Snapped by friend of El Reg and bearded rust-botherer Andy Hinks during a misguided attempted to collect six months' worth of groceries, the glorious Blue Screen of Death was beaming its cold light over visitors to the Walmart tentacle's Hollingbury branch in the damp city of Brighton.

Because Blade Runner day has now been and gone, and we still can't bark "Enhance" at our laptops, a bit of fiddling with the contrast makes us think this might be Windows 7 vomiting its internals over car drivers. The 0x00000074 fits with the BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO, which expects four parameters, the last of which could be 0xC0000102 or STATUS_FILE_CORRUPT_ERROR.

BSOD at the Drive-thru at Asda

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Please use the comments below to work out what the other three parameters might be (if the urge should take you). We gave up, quitters that we are.

Such BSOD displays might soon be a thing of the past, since newer versions of Windows prefer to show a cuddlier face while falling over. Windows 7 is, after all, due to drop out of support next year unless this is a POSReady incarnation or Asda splashes the cash on an extension. Either case could see the OS lingering on a little longer, like the faint odour of cabbage several weeks after overcooking.

Naturally, we contacted Asda to find out what fate had befallen its terminal, but the grocer has yet to respond.

In the meantime, after forlornly pawing at the recalcitrant screen, Mr Hinks will be forced to leave his car and venture indoors to collect his bi-annual haul. Or just find another lane. ®

Updated to add at 15:26 UTC

An Asda spokesperson got in touch with El Reg to say: “Whoops! We're sorry that our Click & Collect at Hollingbury needed a quick reboot, but are pleased to confirm it was up and running again in no time."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: bluescreenofdeath; bsod; europe; microsoft; windows; windowspinglist
A bit of humor at Win7's expense. The Register collects instances of the (in)famous Windows BSOD in public places, and presents them for our amusement.
1 posted on 11/29/2019 9:19:25 AM PST by dayglored
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To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; bajabaja; ...
BSOD in a Public Place Alert ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

2 posted on 11/29/2019 9:20:08 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: dayglored

That’s what you get when Microsoft prefers low-skilled, lying and cheating H1B Indians instead of well-qualified American software engineers


3 posted on 11/29/2019 10:04:10 AM PST by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
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To: dayglored

Hard for me to glean the humor when most of it is written in a foreign language. It is to me anyway.


4 posted on 11/29/2019 11:16:38 AM PST by Migraine
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To: Migraine
Brit tech-journal-slang is not quite as opaque to Americans as, say, Cockney Rhyming Slang, but it can be kind of hard to interpret. Brit tech writers have a sizable vocabulary of words and phrases that cause many non-Brit readers to blink rapidly and miss the meanings. So don't feel alone. :-)

This article was basically just poking fun at Windows' tendency to lose its bearings and go all blue, much like laughing at someone running headlong into a muddy patch and falling on their face.

5 posted on 11/29/2019 11:39:21 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: dayglored

The link to “Blade Runner day” was far more interesting. Read Philip K. Dick’s novel when it came out, and saw the movie version at inceptiom, and many more times as VCR version. All old stuff now. Haven’t seen a BSOD in years, even tough I still have a customer who uses only Win3.11FWG.


6 posted on 11/29/2019 12:41:08 PM PST by imardmd1
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To: imardmd1
> I still have a customer who uses only Win3.11FWG

That's some serious "die-hard" customer you got there!

7 posted on 11/29/2019 1:24:46 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: dayglored

Thanks!


8 posted on 11/29/2019 1:51:00 PM PST by Migraine
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To: dayglored

Well, It still works, if all you do is produce text documents, and stay away from internet involvement. One’s life work could easily be placed on a 2 GB flash drive.


9 posted on 11/29/2019 10:00:19 PM PST by imardmd1
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