[TriLUG] OT - WinXP crashes during Gates demo

[Ian Meyer]

Ah, well then...

I was using asfrecorder, and it gave out on me part way through, and
then I gave up on the video after the media center problem, since it
wasn't that interesting to watch, but thats cool that there really was
a bsod

humbled and corrected,
ian


On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:26:08 -0500, johnm <john280z at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  > 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:
> >
> >
> >>It happened again.
> >>
> >>http://www.canada.com/news/story.html?id=7d5a65b1-8260-44c6-8354-ff4a1ef5d39
> >>b
> >>
> >>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
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> johnm
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