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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 23 2016, @04:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the BBSoD-BIG-Blue-Screen-of-Death dept.

from the beat-this dept.

Via El Reg, Richard Chirgwin asks if anyone has seen a dramatic failure of Microsoft's OS. One assumes that he is referring to very public instances.

In Topper style, he starts off with a real beauty[1] that was spotted in Thailand.

In the comments, cornz 1 mentions seeing every screen at Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam) BSoD'd; Shadow Systems says he had to go to the other side of town when his branch bank's ATM BSoD'd; Robert Helpmann wasn't thrilled when the hotel elevator that was to take him up 20something storeys was showing a BSoD; James 51 also notes that Blue Screens are not a thing of the past, as his wife's Windows 10 update BSoD'd.

[1] If you have Facebook blocked, I have saved you the trip to Blake Sibbit's Facebook page.

Hat tips to TechWorm (though I wish you wouldn't put parts of your content behind scripts) and to Archive.is (which will run scripts for you on their machines).


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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:43PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:43PM (#392289)

    Fatal exception 0e happens for so many random things. It just looks to me like you are pushing an anti-FTDI agenda. It is so out of place here that it makes me think every AC commenting on FTDI is the same sockpuppet.

    There's no need to invent some BS reasons to hate on FTDI. They have plenty of real reasons.

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:01AM

    by anubi (2828) on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:01AM (#392486) Journal

    This FTDI thing burned a lot of people. I am one of them. It made a lot of work for me to re-layout the PCB so I could use an alternative part.

    Its not in my nature to sell something I know is apt to cause my customer a lot of problems.

    That was the prime reason I started building Arduino-compatibles in the first place. I could not trust a large complex system to reliably do sequences of simple primitives. Actually, it is more my problem, as things got so big I could no longer understand exactly what the thing was going to do under any circumstances.

    There is not much harm done if an advertising display shows BSOD, but what if this is in some sort of robotics like a bottling plant? A computer that had just a fraction of second's inattentiveness to the process could easily result in tens of thousands of dollars worth of spoiled product. I do not work for the big guys.. as I have a hard time working with managers that want to see name brands all over everything. I work for the small guy on his way to becoming big. If the big guy wants me, I have to report to him, not his non-technical management minion.

    We are not all the same sock puppet, cause I know *I* did not author a lot of anonymous posts I have seen on the same subject.

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    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday August 24 2016, @01:30PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 24 2016, @01:30PM (#392556)

      They certainly did lose customers over their driver update shenanigans. But the ACs assertion that this BSOD was caused by FTDI is really out there.

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