Billy gets BSOD

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Fri Jan 7 08:31:09 EST 2005


LOL, I sent this into the list yesterday too but forgot to change my 
from email address and thus it never came thru. I didn't send it again 
either, wanted to see if anyone else would. Too funny.

green_man wrote:

> http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/news/article.php?story=20050106135807214
>
> * Oops: Blue Screen Of Death Interrupts Gates' CES Show * Thursday, 
> January 06 2005 @ 01:58 PM EST
> Contributed by: glosser
>
> * At this point, I think they should change the color, just to make it 
> different. :) *
>
> Bill Gates' keynote presentation Wednesday night at the Consumer 
> Electronics Show didn't quite go according to plan: glitches, 
> including a dreaded "Blue Screen of Death," interrupted the show 
> several times.
>
> Microsoft's chairman, who shared the stage with late-night talk show 
> host Conan O'Brien, kept his cool when Microsoft Media Center crashed 
> during the presentation, and an Xbox displayed the blue screen of death.
>
>
> The rest of the story from techweb is even better. It continues ...
>
> As the Xbox went down for the count, the Microsoft executive running 
> that part of the presentation, Garrett Young, said, "This is a little 
> bit of demo karma, sorry, I'm out of system memory apparently. Yeah, 
> so just imagine, if you will, that I was customizing my car and doing 
> some really cool stuff."
>
> O'Brien played to the crowd during the crashes with lines like "right 
> now nine people are being fired," and "Who's in charge of Microsoft? Oh."
>
>
> Thanks Kevin, you made my day. ;-)
> I know how to change the color; it's 2 registry keys in the 9x's.
> I have green on green in the Matrix theme I made and red on black in 
> my Raven theme.
>



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