Comments on: Is a BSOD on a bus … a BuSOD?

By: Punky

Punky — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:08:17 +0000

I heard that Win7 have a graphical themes for bsod, thats nice…LoL

By: tomas

tomas — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:08:40 +0000

Lol go pirates ^^

By: vespas

vespas — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 01:23:10 +0000

yesterday the central underground station in my city had a massive triple-head projector setup with a slide show (at least 5m diagonal each screen). in the center? on top of the slide images, a popup box saying “this copy of windows is not genuine. click here…”

By: Luca

Luca — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:53:19 +0000

Heh we get this all the time over here. Digital advertisements and the like are all powered by XP.

I think the reason why people by from Microsoft is because they (somehow) believe that by buying from a ‘trusted’ company such as them they will get support and the like if things go wrong. Sure they will, after paying about 10x more for a support package which isn’t even guaranteed to fix the problem.

By: llewton

llewton — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:23:34 +0000

Well, Fedora will crash, duh

But Debian won’t

By: Ernestas

Ernestas — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:07:18 +0000

“I should have realized that a digital sign board would probably run some backdated underpowered version of a Microsoft product, and by logical extension, would be prone to failure. It’s just the law of the land.”

We have buses running Fedora Linux for big LCD advertisement displays. And believe me, they DO get crashed.
http://twitpic.com/3be6kf

But you’re definetely right about using Windows here. Nobody uses at least half of the functions Windows provide in that machine so why bother paying so much for a thing which will never be used?

By: Per

Per — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:05:01 +0000

I witnessed a train booting into Windows XP while I was on it. It’s these little cracks in the surface that make everything about the trip seem uncomfortably unstable.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 03:18:39 +0000

I caught a similar thing on a fancy coke vending machine. I got a picture of it. I submitted it to the FAIL blog, you can see it here:

http://cheezburger.com/View/4260117248

By: arin

arin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:48:00 +0000

Similar story: At a local movie theater, there was a cash register that displayed an error message window, in true Windows-in-the-marketplace style.

Of course, on the plus side, the projectors/servers (they stream from a central server to play the movie) are powered by Linux, so there’s some thought in the company as to how they run things.