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World's largest Windows error message
Network World ^
| 02/21/2006
| Adam Gaffin
Posted on 02/22/2006 7:16:48 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
We went down to New York for the long weekend. Despite the 16-degree weather, we walked down to Times Square - all the bright lights lured us the ten blocks from our hotel. When we got there, we stood like, well, tourists, gaping at all the electronic billboards. And then, across the square, I saw it: the world's largest Windows error message - on a two-story high e-billboard (I guess everything really is bigger in New York). It was the only billboard in the entire square with absolutely no movement - since the PC running it had obviously frozen.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: owned; pwn3d; thatswhatyouget; typical; windoze
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I get Windows error messages in my dreams.
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posted on
02/22/2006 7:17:42 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
It's not a flaw. It's a feature.
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posted on
02/22/2006 7:17:53 AM PST
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
That's what they get for trying to run a business using a Windows Operating system.
4
posted on
02/22/2006 7:18:36 AM PST
by
jaydubya2
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
That is some seriously unfortunate publicity...
5
posted on
02/22/2006 7:18:57 AM PST
by
kevkrom
("...no one has ever successfully waged a war against stupidity" - Orson Scott Card)
To: Mike Bates
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
It's.... uhhh... its..... it... I got it.
It's a memory saving and performance boosting feature. It forces you to reboot the machine, thus clearing out the caches and memory and that increases overall performance.
Yeah, that's it.
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posted on
02/22/2006 7:27:31 AM PST
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. Apple's own numbers are hard to argue with.)
To: N3WBI3; ShadowAce; Golden Eagle
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posted on
02/22/2006 7:30:02 AM PST
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. Apple's own numbers are hard to argue with.)
To: Mike Bates
It's not a flaw. It's a feature.Exactly. MSFT are a thoughtful bunch - "We have created an error report."
Thank you, Bill!
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posted on
02/22/2006 7:31:59 AM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
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posted on
02/22/2006 7:34:10 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
10
posted on
02/22/2006 8:50:52 AM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Well, at least it's not the "Blue E-Billboard of Death."
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posted on
02/22/2006 8:53:40 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Mike Bates
It's not a flaw. It's a feature. An undocumented feature.
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posted on
02/22/2006 1:42:18 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgences of society's understanding.)
To: ShadowAce
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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posted on
02/22/2006 2:25:06 PM PST
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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