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poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: France
Insane since: Jun 2002

posted posted 01-06-2005 16:22

How to get ridiculized twice in 90 minutes

axleclarkeuk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Swansea, Wales, UK
Insane since: Aug 2001

posted posted 01-06-2005 17:08

Oh no, not again

mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 01-06-2005 17:11

One would expect they did some trial runs beforehand.

Iron Wallaby
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: USA
Insane since: May 2004

posted posted 01-06-2005 18:08

Hahaha, that's great.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

Hugh
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Dublin, Ireland
Insane since: Jul 2000

posted posted 01-06-2005 22:10

One would expect that sort of crap from Microsoft .. ..

It would be great if this happened at all their shows, they might think twice about shipping dodgy code.

I X I
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: beyond the gray sky
Insane since: Apr 2004

posted posted 01-06-2005 22:28

sounds about on par for gates.
I have a video of it happening live on CNN which can be found here

I am currently uploading the file (2.5mb), but will be done in about 10 min.



Some people say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one (John Lennon)

Ramasax
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: PA, US
Insane since: Feb 2002

posted posted 01-07-2005 01:33

Corrected link:

http://www.ixifx.net/misc/BSOD.mpg

(removed the 'e' from mpeg)

Thanks for posting it, very funny.

Ramasax

axleclarkeuk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Swansea, Wales, UK
Insane since: Aug 2001

posted posted 01-07-2005 03:25

I think you might find that the video you have posted refers to an incident that happened quite some time before this latest one.

That was the original BSOD incident that started the whole Gates Humour circulating, but still amusing nontheles

I X I
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: beyond the gray sky
Insane since: Apr 2004

posted posted 01-07-2005 03:47

thanks ramasax, I got it fixed on the site, too.
it is old, it was before they started shipping 98, but still funny every time



Do you serve a purpose or purposely serve (Corey Taylor)

xcFeRiNiZeDcc
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: U.S.
Insane since: Jan 2004

posted posted 01-08-2005 08:30

I was at the show thursday and friday, guess I just missed it

poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: France
Insane since: Jun 2002

posted posted 01-08-2005 23:05

I found a .torrent link of the footage showing the introduction of CES 2005 with the crashes. The video weigh 177Mb and last 1h20mins. I'm currently watching it.

Troxeye
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Sweden
Insane since: Jul 2002

posted posted 01-08-2005 23:53

Don't flame me...

Remember that the BSOD isn't something you should hate. It helps protect your data from eg. faulty drivers (which is often not made by Microsoft).

- G M Y -

poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: France
Insane since: Jun 2002

posted posted 01-09-2005 00:18

YEP!
but there's certainly some other, and more user friendly, ways to stop a faulty program ... without crashing the whole computer for example.

[edit] notice the powerful "yep" [/edit]



(Edited by poi on 01-09-2005 00:30)

Ramasax
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: PA, US
Insane since: Feb 2002

posted posted 01-09-2005 04:44

For those who don't have torrent installed, I found an mms stream of the file poi was talking about here.

Ramasax

(Edited by Ramasax on 01-09-2005 04:46)

silence
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Melbourne, Australia
Insane since: Jan 2001

posted posted 01-09-2005 09:31

The first one was pretty funny, when the pc froze on Bill, but I think they can be forgiven for the "out of memory" error. They were probably demo-ing the latest build since the code hasn't even gone gold yet, and things happen with development code.

The funniest part was probably Conan commenting that once Bill came in the average net worth of everyone in the building was $127 million dollars.

LaSun
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: the dark one with no windows
Insane since: Sep 2001

posted posted 01-09-2005 12:12

i wonder if anybody got fired for that muck up ...

too funny..

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poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: France
Insane since: Jun 2002

posted posted 01-09-2005 13:17

silence: the Media Center freeze was rather funny, with Bill insisting a little on the remote and ending with a powerful yep Hopefully for him Conan helped to move on.

The XBOX BSOD is understandable, but was pretty funny too. And actually the lead developper ( or lead something ) of Forza Motor Sport should have taken the latest stable build for the show. It was quite funny to see him customizing his car, showing how easy it was ( notice that it's almost as easy to do so in NFSU2 ), and when he decided to show that the customization of each cars is effective in the game and even online, bam!

White Hawk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: out of nowhere...
Insane since: May 2004

posted posted 01-10-2005 02:21

Working in an industry where I take a large hand in the IT side of various conferences and shows, I can see why they should have hired me. I could do with the money that someone, somewhere earned to make a bulls-up of that...

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