Posted on 08/12/2008 4:44:59 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Let your hubby buy a new hard drive and reload the OS from scratch or use recovery CDs.
Of course, if you do buy a new system, would you toss Folding@home on it and let it crunch away to help cure Alzheimer's Disease?
Why is the BSOD in English?
Perhaps they could afford the new lower priced Chinese XP?
Why is the BSOD in English?
Perhaps they couldn’t afford the new lower priced Chinese XP?
The chi-com government is an affront to mankind. The Chinese people I know are great people. I’ve chimed in on these particular threads because they’re petty b!tchin’ about unimportant things. You seem to enjoy complaining about any silly issue as long as it involves anything Chinese. Do you even know any Chinese? I have many friends who are naturalized , fairly new citizens. They’re all very good people. Save your anger for more important issues, like the huge Chicom military build-up.
Although my job is none of your business, I am the operator of a Public Utility. 27 years.
That was my first thought. Makes me suspect this isn't real, regardless of all the camera angles.
Now you’ve all seen what 91,000 people look like packed into a purpose built stadium does anyone want to keep up the ridiculous story that 200,000 showed up in Berlin to stand on streets that are only 130 feet wide and that lead directly away from a podium that he was standing on?
And now we have it reported that the worldwide TV audience for the opening ceremonies and the US v China basketball game was ONE billion do we still believe Al Gore’s much repeated claim that “TWO Billion participated in Live Earth”?
Thanks, I'll tell Hubby about it.
Leni
The photo above shows that one, or more of the computers which were controlling the ceremony had crashed, and that the Chinese were using Windows software.
the infowarrior
Here is a wild theory. What if this wasn’t part of the ChiComms opening ceremonies show projection system. Could this have been an ultimate prank?
Could someone have brought in a LCD projector hooked up to a laptop and projected this image onto the darkened overhead screen? Notice that the adjacent areas of the screen are not showing any image at that moment.
I know the ChiComms security was air tight, but maybe someone that authority to bring in a laptop and projector for a legitimate purpose decided to have some fun at that moment?
What if their intent wasn’t to show a simple BSOD image, but rather something else like a Tibetan or Taiwanese flag instead? Maybe their laptop glitched or got sabotaged by a ChiComm operative that couldn’t quite get to the projector but could zap the laptop.
Ok, I know it is highly improbable, but it does make for fun speculation. ;)
More than likely this is a photoshop hoax by Linux/Apple lovers. ;)
I believe that the BSOD is always presented in ASCII character generator mode. ASCII contains only Latin characters.
I do remember coding for Arabic and Mandarin, which were double word characters.
We are talking way, way back on IBM systems and Harris PBXs (?) and we hope to drop in a straight translation at the time ...
Of course, after all these years ...
Good times, spending all night figuring out foreign language BSOD.
Not enough pizza and adult beverages in the world to try that now.
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