China: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting

GIZMODO ^ | 08/11/08

[kenth]

Wouldn’t it turn your stomach to be high in the air like that and see a BSOD. You’d hope it wasn’t a prediction of things soon, very soon, to come.

[MARKUSPRIME]

LMAO. The BSOD is all powerful.

[Moose4]

Windows XPwned.

(I shouldn’t talk smack...I’m running Vista 64-bit now. And amazingly enough, it works just fine, better than my old XP install.)

}:-)4

[Hacklehead]

“For some reason I have absolutly no intrest in the olympics. Zero none.”

I’ve stopped watching since ALL the commentators are so ridiculously pro-Chinese that you would think that they work for the Chinese ministry of propaganda or that their families are being held at gunpoint. Listening to them fawning about how great the chinese atheletes are, I’m amazed that anyone else wasted their time to show up.

[sarasota]

China is determined to dominate the world. The Olympics is just the tip of the iceberg.

[Woodman]

To me seeing the BSOD in one small projection area of the whole stadium means a couple of things: The Chinese decided to use hundreds of Windows PC's to control the highly complex and syncronized projections for the ceremony, LINUX or Apple couldn't cut it.

Also seeing as the Chicoms have such a reputation for using pirated MS Software, it would be interesting to see what caused the BSOD. But what the hell, let's just knee-jerk blame Microsoft while we have Apples stuck in our moths like a pig on a spit.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

I’m sorry, but I’m dense on this. What is so significant about this??

[kenth]

It’s probably just flaky Chinese hardware, pirated software or not. As for being able to handle the projections, Linux and definitely Apple could handle it, but MS was probably faster and cheaper to assemble. LOL, especially if it was pirated MS software.

But back to the BSOD, it’s just humorous that it happens with perfectly bad timing, especially with Bill Gates in the audience.

[Hacklehead]

“China is determined to dominate the world. The Olympics is just the tip of the iceberg.”

True, but do our Olympic commentators have to willingly serve as propaganda tools for them? Is there any dictatorship that the MSM folk don’t admire?

[MinuteGal]

Can someone, perhaps the thread poster, explain in layman's terms what the hay this is all about......without riddling the explanation with undecipherable acronyms?

THNX,

Leni

[sarasota]

The fawning media just don’t see the reality of ethical values anymore. Perhaps they never did.

[Irishguy]

for as long as anyone can remember microsoft’s operating system (xp, win98 etc) fails. when it fails, its fails to a standard message with a blue background. in IT terms thats call the BSOD, or blue screen of death, sometimes called blue screening or a million variations of same. the only way to fix it is to reboot. the issue is how often it happens. keep in mind other OS system run for moths or years without failing. let me be polite and say that it tends to happen more frequently with microsoft products.

[NCjim]

The BSOD - Blue Screen of Death - means that the Windows operating system has encountered an internal, unrecoverable failure, and that the system must be restarted. The BSOD gives the details but to 99% of the world it just means cross your fingers and restart the system.

My favorite is seeing airport arrival/departure screens displaying the BSOD - part of the Windows Everywhere plan. :-)

[MinuteGal]

Many thanks for the explanation. Now I get it....I think. I noticed nothing unusual as the guy "strode" around the vast circle.

Leni

[Nick Danger]

[AmericaUnite]

When we got the blue screen of death, the computer was nearly unrecoverable. Hubby works in the computer field and worked on it a long time to recover enough data to go on a new computer.

Now it took him about ten days (a few hours a day) to get rid of a Trojan virus I must have let in. (Over our McAfee complete package). And he still can't get the backup system he bought after the difficulty with the last recovery to work right!! And thinks we have to buy another one$$$

[VeniVidiVici]

I’m seriously surprised they were not using red flag linux.

Me too. Either not there yet or the pirated MS software was cheaper.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Wow, you've been on every single Olympics thread defending the ChiCom opening ceremonies, even when it's coming to light that the whole thing was a sham, from the fake fireworks, to the little girl lipsynching, to this blue-screen of death.

Who exactly do you work for again?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Made in China Blue Screen of Death PING!

[Leo Farnsworth]

“Over our McAfee complete package”

There's your problem. IMHO McAfe and Norton don't really do much.

Try Avast - it's free, and monthly scan your computer with Trend Housecall - it's an on line scanner (disable Avast prior to the scan) and, again, free. Stops viruses cold.