This comes to mind.
Posted on 05/12/2005 7:27:38 AM PDT by dware
Microsoft has come up with a unique solution to the legendary Blue Screen of Death in the next version of its Windows operating system.
With the release of Longhorn, the Redmond behemoth has added a red screen to face users when their system crashes.
According to Microsoft techie and blogger Michael Kaplan, who has been experimenting with a Longhorn beta, as well as being confronted with the Blue Screen of Death, now users will also see red.
The Red Screen of Death appears to be the bigger, badder cousin to the traditional blue screen and is designed to let users know that a more serious error has occurred, Kaplan said.
It's unlikely that the problem will affect many users of the next generation operating system. Kaplin, Microsoft's technical lead for globalization infrastructure, fonts and tools, said that he had only achieved the red screen of death by making a "small set-up change" and altering the registry.
This "somewhat destructive act", said Kaplin, provoked a red screen of death after he rebooted Longhorn's virtual image, where previous versions of Windows returned a black screen with a different error message following the same treatment.
"I am not sure I would class the change as an improvement," Kaplin said.
Microsoft should sell ad space on the Blue Screen....
This comes to mind.
LoL! I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I saw that, I would have splattered a keyboard.
Next OS will also include 'the plaid screen of panic'.
"Warning: Error has occured. MS windows has lost all your files for the big project due tomorrow morning. Please consult your nearest witch doctor to bring your data back from the dead."
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
It could keep a running tab on the total amount of time you've spent rebooting and reinstalling the OS.
Shoot, I've loaded some pretty crappy drivers on XP and only blue screened it once. And, it turned out this was a known issue with the driver. The fix was reseating the PCI card in another slot.
XP has been pretty rugged and reliable here where I work, and, unfortunately, the people who preceded me allowed the end users way to much freedom with their desktops. Amazingly, no one here has managed to BSOD any of the XP desktops.
Unless everything
is in ROM, any system
can be crashed this way.
Once again, a triumph of style over substance.
As Bill "Mr. Mediocrity" Gates is fond of saying, "No one ever got rich selling superior software."
Red Hat should sue them for trying to co-opt the use of red.
Actually, I prefer the mauve screen of mortification.
I must admit I haven't seen a blue screen in XP in quite a while. I saw a ton of them early on as manufacturers were scrambling to get their drivers working right.
The day I saw my Blue Screen of Death I saw Red too. Nothing new here.
Well, first the Blue Screen of Death, now the Red Screen of Death, if we toss in this IBM Thinkpad laptop with the White Screen of Death (a common problem in Thinkpads), we will have red, white and blue. B-)
I pretty much NEVER have problems with a PC that an occassional (every 3-5 days) restart won't fix. I'm convinced the key is to scan for spyware once a day, scan for virus' once a day, run cleandisk once a week, run defrag once every 2-3 weeks, and keep all security programs and windows up to date.
This is really pretty simple; most of it can be automated. For instance, I setup MS Spyware and Antivirus to update automatically and run a scan at 4am everynight (staggered so not at the same time).
Any computer I've ever seen where the users don't do the above are full of spyware and basically don't run anywhere near 100%.
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