China: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting

Ping!

D’oh!

Decoding ping,

So freakin’ what!!! Must be a chi-com plot right?

Any XP user knows that screen! Maybe the Chinese were trying to reach out to the XP proletariat around the world...

Did someone crick Contror-Art-Derete?

Microsoft should inquire as to whether the license is valid, or ‘locally copied’. ahem ........

But never ask a legal question of which you don’t already know the answer.

I’m seriously surprised they were not using red flag linux.

For some reason I have absolutly no intrest in the olympics. Zero none.

Maybe you only care about BSoD.:-)

ha - not sho shmart!

LOL

Now that is funny. The Mac and Linux crowd be be pleased.

Now that is funny. The Mac and Linux crowd be be pleased.

Let's see...

Ping

Should have used Vista.

Being completely uninformed on just about all things tech.

Can this be explained in simple terms so that this dummie can understand what happened.

Please, and of course, merci!

Any XP user knows that screen!

Been using XP Professional and Home since 2000. Never seen the BSOD.

Wouldn’t it turn your stomach to be high in the air like that and see a BSOD. You’d hope it wasn’t a prediction of things soon, very soon, to come.

LMAO. The BSOD is all powerful.

Windows XPwned.

(I shouldn’t talk smack...I’m running Vista 64-bit now. And amazingly enough, it works just fine, better than my old XP install.)

}:-)4

“For some reason I have absolutly no intrest in the olympics. Zero none.”

I’ve stopped watching since ALL the commentators are so ridiculously pro-Chinese that you would think that they work for the Chinese ministry of propaganda or that their families are being held at gunpoint. Listening to them fawning about how great the chinese atheletes are, I’m amazed that anyone else wasted their time to show up.

China is determined to dominate the world. The Olympics is just the tip of the iceberg.

To me seeing the BSOD in one small projection area of the whole stadium means a couple of things: The Chinese decided to use hundreds of Windows PC's to control the highly complex and syncronized projections for the ceremony, LINUX or Apple couldn't cut it.

Also seeing as the Chicoms have such a reputation for using pirated MS Software, it would be interesting to see what caused the BSOD. But what the hell, let's just knee-jerk blame Microsoft while we have Apples stuck in our moths like a pig on a spit.

I’m sorry, but I’m dense on this. What is so significant about this??

It’s probably just flaky Chinese hardware, pirated software or not. As for being able to handle the projections, Linux and definitely Apple could handle it, but MS was probably faster and cheaper to assemble. LOL, especially if it was pirated MS software.

But back to the BSOD, it’s just humorous that it happens with perfectly bad timing, especially with Bill Gates in the audience.

“China is determined to dominate the world. The Olympics is just the tip of the iceberg.”

True, but do our Olympic commentators have to willingly serve as propaganda tools for them? Is there any dictatorship that the MSM folk don’t admire?

Can someone, perhaps the thread poster, explain in layman's terms what the hay this is all about......without riddling the explanation with undecipherable acronyms?

THNX,

Leni

The fawning media just don’t see the reality of ethical values anymore. Perhaps they never did.

for as long as anyone can remember microsoft’s operating system (xp, win98 etc) fails. when it fails, its fails to a standard message with a blue background. in IT terms thats call the BSOD, or blue screen of death, sometimes called blue screening or a million variations of same. the only way to fix it is to reboot. the issue is how often it happens. keep in mind other OS system run for moths or years without failing. let me be polite and say that it tends to happen more frequently with microsoft products.

The BSOD - Blue Screen of Death - means that the Windows operating system has encountered an internal, unrecoverable failure, and that the system must be restarted. The BSOD gives the details but to 99% of the world it just means cross your fingers and restart the system.

My favorite is seeing airport arrival/departure screens displaying the BSOD - part of the Windows Everywhere plan. :-)

Many thanks for the explanation. Now I get it....I think. I noticed nothing unusual as the guy "strode" around the vast circle.

Leni

When we got the blue screen of death, the computer was nearly unrecoverable. Hubby works in the computer field and worked on it a long time to recover enough data to go on a new computer.

Now it took him about ten days (a few hours a day) to get rid of a Trojan virus I must have let in. (Over our McAfee complete package). And he still can't get the backup system he bought after the difficulty with the last recovery to work right!! And thinks we have to buy another one$$$

I’m seriously surprised they were not using red flag linux.

Me too. Either not there yet or the pirated MS software was cheaper.

Wow, you've been on every single Olympics thread defending the ChiCom opening ceremonies, even when it's coming to light that the whole thing was a sham, from the fake fireworks, to the little girl lipsynching, to this blue-screen of death.

Who exactly do you work for again?

Made in China Blue Screen of Death PING!

“Over our McAfee complete package”

There's your problem. IMHO McAfe and Norton don't really do much.

Try Avast - it's free, and monthly scan your computer with Trend Housecall - it's an on line scanner (disable Avast prior to the scan) and, again, free. Stops viruses cold.

I recently made a decent bundle recovering a system that was infected. The gentleman could have purchased a new system but he needed the data off the old system.

Let your hubby buy a new hard drive and reload the OS from scratch or use recovery CDs.

Of course, if you do buy a new system, would you toss Folding@home on it and let it crunch away to help cure Alzheimer's Disease?

Why is the BSOD in English?

Perhaps they could afford the new lower priced Chinese XP?

Why is the BSOD in English?

Perhaps they couldn’t afford the new lower priced Chinese XP?

The chi-com government is an affront to mankind. The Chinese people I know are great people. I’ve chimed in on these particular threads because they’re petty b!tchin’ about unimportant things. You seem to enjoy complaining about any silly issue as long as it involves anything Chinese. Do you even know any Chinese? I have many friends who are naturalized , fairly new citizens. They’re all very good people. Save your anger for more important issues, like the huge Chicom military build-up.
Although my job is none of your business, I am the operator of a Public Utility. 27 years.

Why is the BSOD in English?

That was my first thought. Makes me suspect this isn't real, regardless of all the camera angles.

Now you’ve all seen what 91,000 people look like packed into a purpose built stadium does anyone want to keep up the ridiculous story that 200,000 showed up in Berlin to stand on streets that are only 130 feet wide and that lead directly away from a podium that he was standing on?

And now we have it reported that the worldwide TV audience for the opening ceremonies and the US v China basketball game was ONE billion do we still believe Al Gore’s much repeated claim that “TWO Billion participated in Live Earth”?

Try Avast - it's free

Thanks, I'll tell Hubby about it.

Can someone, perhaps the thread poster, explain in layman's terms what the hay this is all about......without riddling the explanation with undecipherable acronyms? THNX,

Leni

The photo above shows that one, or more of the computers which were controlling the ceremony had crashed, and that the Chinese were using Windows software.

the infowarrior

Here is a wild theory. What if this wasn’t part of the ChiComms opening ceremonies show projection system. Could this have been an ultimate prank?

Could someone have brought in a LCD projector hooked up to a laptop and projected this image onto the darkened overhead screen? Notice that the adjacent areas of the screen are not showing any image at that moment.

I know the ChiComms security was air tight, but maybe someone that authority to bring in a laptop and projector for a legitimate purpose decided to have some fun at that moment?

What if their intent wasn’t to show a simple BSOD image, but rather something else like a Tibetan or Taiwanese flag instead? Maybe their laptop glitched or got sabotaged by a ChiComm operative that couldn’t quite get to the projector but could zap the laptop.

Ok, I know it is highly improbable, but it does make for fun speculation. ;)

More than likely this is a photoshop hoax by Linux/Apple lovers. ;)