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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