[TriLUG] OT - WinXP crashes during Gates demo

[johnm]

 > Ian Meyer wrote:

>I watched the video that was linked to from slashdot, and i have to
>say, it looked more to me like a hardware failure, or that M$ has made
>their software failures a lot more surreptitious. All that happened
>was it wouldn't respond to input from the remote. Was it a remote
>problem? Line of sight with the IR (lame but possible)? Was the
>reciever malfunctioning? Bad driver? but nothing so dramatic as a BSoD
>or any error messages, it just Didn't Work.
>
>oh well, it was still funny, and at least conan was there to give him
>a little grief about it
>
>~ian
>
>
>On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:58:53 -0500, Ryan Leathers
><Ryan.Leathers at globalknowledge.com> wrote:
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>>It happened again.
>>
>>http://www.canada.com/news/story.html?id=7d5a65b1-8260-44c6-8354-ff4a1ef5d39
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>>I wonder how many heads will roll...
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  Acording to Good Morning Silicon Valley, there was a BSoD:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/10581891.htm

johnm