Re: Windows BSOD at olympics

Lee,

Here is a really funny story about Window's BSOD.
Click on the link to see article with pics.

Rose

http://gizmodo.com/5035456/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting









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

Well, this is just perfect. At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD nestled among the Nest's steel twigs. Perhaps an Opening Ceremonies IT dude spit out his coffee on the machines in the server room when Li took to the sky? Another question is what a projection screen is doing inside the Nest at that location, but I think the better question is what wasn't going on inside the Nest's roof—did you see that thing during the ceremonies? Lights! Fireworks! LED screens! Everything! Anyway, if only one image of this perfectness existed we'd be skeptical, but thankfully, someone has grabbed more from a different angle that pretty much seal the deal.

UPDATE: And it's been confirmed on the NBC broadcast by commenter cirby on his DVR.

Click for high-res:

Ouch! More super-zoomed images for error message decoding here:
[Powerapple Forum (Chinese, original pic), and Rivercool (alternate angle pics) via Dvorak - props to Dvorak commenter Improbus for "Olympic Fail"]

Read more pan-Gawker coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games.

10:45 AM on Mon Aug 11 2008
By John Mahoney
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Image of EVIL_V2 EVIL_V2 at 10:50 AM on 08/11/08
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thats awsome, only a nerd would notice this
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Image of DMF DMF at 10:51 AM on 08/11/08
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Oh man, this is awesome. Shut up mac boys.
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Image of zakharm zakharm at 10:52 AM on 08/11/08
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Was it a legit copy of Windows?
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Image of violentsingalong violentsingalong at 10:52 AM on 08/11/08
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Ouch.. Maybe their graphics cards overheated after they decided to render everything in CGI instead of doing it for real... wait... was the BSOD even real?
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Image of yipes yipes at 10:52 AM on 08/11/08
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Very cool. It took a trained geek to notice this among all of the awesomeness that was the opening ceremony. That's dedication.
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Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin at 10:54 AM on 08/11/08
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"Perhaps an Opening Cermonies IT dude spit out his coffee on the machines in the server room when Li took to the sky?"

I sure hope not... Getting fired in China carries a whole different meaning.
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Image of warxsnake warxsnake at 10:55 AM on 08/11/08
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i watched the whole thing live and like some commenters on the links you provided, I didn't see any BSOD. One person reviewed his recording and didn't find anything.
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Image of VoidingWarranties VoidingWarranties at 10:55 AM on 08/11/08
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This just made the olympics opening ceremony much better. Now only if they had a geek's olympics...
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Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies! at 10:57 AM on 08/11/08
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Which would you rather have crash? Windows or your performers?
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Image of trek1394 trek1394 at 10:57 AM on 08/11/08
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Windows strikes again!
@ the Olympics no less.
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Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs at 10:59 AM on 08/11/08
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@Rabid Penguin: Does this mean we have to switch the "In Soviet Russia..." jokes to "In Communist China..."?
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Image of P3nnst8r needs a jorb P3nnst8r needs a jorb at 11:00 AM on 08/11/08
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@warxsnake: I think it was probably a projection of the field and the simulcast, as people in those seats probably couldn't see the best in terms of individual people.

Like those tvs they have at stadiums broadcasting the games parallel to the game going on.
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Image of BloggyMcBlogBlog BloggyMcBlogBlog at 11:00 AM on 08/11/08
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@zakharm: It is in China, so probably not.
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Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us at 11:01 AM on 08/11/08
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Why would there be a projector facing at that strange angle? This looks like photoshot to me. The projections on the rim are done in landscape, not portrait. Why is it rotated 90 degrees?
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Image of OmniZero OmniZero at 11:03 AM on 08/11/08
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I wonder if that version of Windows is legitimate...
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Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin at 11:04 AM on 08/11/08
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@FredicvsMaximvs: That's what I'm pushing for.
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Image of welasharp welasharp at 11:05 AM on 08/11/08
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priceless!!!
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Image of Lestat Lestat at 11:05 AM on 08/11/08
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Nice, someone lost their job.
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Image of Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity Git Em SteveDave... at 11:05 AM on 08/11/08
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Anyone notice the BSOD was in English? Just saying that shouldn't the Government run Tech people be using their own language version, or was this a pirated US version?
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Image of P3nnst8r needs a jorb P3nnst8r needs a jorb at 11:06 AM on 08/11/08
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@FredicvsMaximvs:

In Communist China mphhh mphhhs muhhhh phhhh
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Image of dsenier dsenier at 11:08 AM on 08/11/08
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I like it, keeps Microsoft humble to have these images out there.
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Image of Dusty*** Dusty*** at 11:10 AM on 08/11/08
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FAKE! FAKE! FAKE!
You can see the difference in color where the cables overlap the error screen. There are enough problems with windows... Why make *** up?
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Image of lilaliendog lilaliendog at 11:12 AM on 08/11/08
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so this is actually the inside lip of the birds nest so no one sitting directly below or watching on tv would have seen this.
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Image of MDIFILM MDIFILM at 11:13 AM on 08/11/08
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well, according to the chinese site, it's a fake, and why wouldn't this to be in Chinese instead? Oh wait, it was probably put together by an American company...?
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Image of jayomatic jayomatic at 11:14 AM on 08/11/08
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Considering how many computers they must have been running for those hundreds of projections all running at the same time, only have 1 computer crash is pretty impressive.
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Image of Stabio Stabio at 11:21 AM on 08/11/08
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Good job faking it with the two pics. I think its the New Zeland flag (Union Jack in the corner) that I used for a reference and it lines up in both shots. Even though it is a bit off center.
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Image of 3r1c 3r1c at 11:21 AM on 08/11/08
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it's apple's new advertising campaign!
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Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies! at 11:22 AM on 08/11/08
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@FredicvsMaximvs: In Communist China, Windows crashes you.
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Image of Shutaro Shutaro at 11:23 AM on 08/11/08
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@Dusty***: 'Cause it's fun?
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Image of tekieb tekieb at 11:25 AM on 08/11/08
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Almost all of the media servers for the digital lighting (read: projection) are windows based, look at [www.highend.com] It uses XP and directX. My guess is one of them gave out. I can't see live video being projected there.
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Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster at 11:25 AM on 08/11/08
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@zakharm: Pre-Windows Genuine Advantage popup!
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Image of Stabio Stabio at 11:26 AM on 08/11/08
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Bah, sorry for another post but the Rivercool zoom is a close up of what? It is definately not of the first pic or that last one...angles of object on cieling are all wrong.
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Image of ohsnapmacbook ohsnapmacbook at 11:26 AM on 08/11/08
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ZOMG WTF BBQ
Holy crap that is pretty sweet!!!
You see, nerds are good!!
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Image of CapitalC CapitalC at 11:27 AM on 08/11/08
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Re: Location - if you noticed that many of the projected images weren't in "fixed" locations, it leads me to believe they all had automated (or, gasp, manual) positioning systems and someone decided that the ceiling was a better place for the BSOD than the middle of the performance.

Just a thought?
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Image of DarkMirage DarkMirage at 11:28 AM on 08/11/08
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@Rabid Penguin:

Actually, it's just like any other place. I doubt that you know what China is actually like, but I guess it's cool to pretend.
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Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies! at 11:30 AM on 08/11/08
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Any reason it took these images this long to hit the net? The BSOD (allegedly) happened 30 hours before it was posted. Why the delay?
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Image of stre stre at 11:31 AM on 08/11/08
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@warxsnake: if you look at the images you can see that it appears to be on the underside or back of the lip that goes around the stadium, which means it wouldn't have been picked up when the camera was following the torch lighter. as you can see in the first picture, the photographer is shooting from beheath the guy, so the image is on the underside of the roof.
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Image of matdevdug matdevdug at 11:31 AM on 08/11/08
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For the sake of the Chinese crews running the performance I hope this is a fake. Some of the Chinese governments reputation for intensity towards failure is made-up, but having lived in China for several years I can tell you that the Olympics are absolutely the biggest priority in the country. If this was a computer mess-up there is no question in my mind the entire team that handled it was fired and probably reassigned to the most humiliating job that could be found. No joke.
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Image of Dusty*** Dusty*** at 11:32 AM on 08/11/08
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@CapitalC: As opposed to turning the single unit off or pointing it at the sky?
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Image of DarkHavoc99 DarkHavoc99 at 11:33 AM on 08/11/08
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ok is this fake? This is just too perfect...
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Image of adocious adocious at 11:34 AM on 08/11/08
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@DarkMirage: It's JUST like any other place. Except with pollution thick enough to cut with a knife. And a police state. And religious oppression. And news press oppression.
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Image of whootowl whootowl at 11:36 AM on 08/11/08
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The "Human Bodies" exhibit that has been touring the United States is about to receive a few more specimens.
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Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin at 11:37 AM on 08/11/08
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@DarkMirage: No true freedom of religion, no true freedom of speech, the government tells you how many children you're allowed to have (including forced contraceptives and forced abortion), lack of due process (summer fun at a "reeducation camp" is the awesome)... the list goes on...

yeah, sounds like any other place to me too.
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Image of lldsandsll lldsandsll at 11:40 AM on 08/11/08
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boy, if that aint a kick in the nuts
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Image of John Mahoney John Mahoney at 11:40 AM on 08/11/08
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@adocious: @everyone: Guys, this thread isn't about China's politics. It's about a MASSIVE BSOD on one of the coolest buildings in the world. On topic, please and thank you!
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Image of snitch29 snitch29 at 11:44 AM on 08/11/08
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Am not saying this is real but if it was am pretty sure we will hear a lot about this, since this had to be seen by thousands of people, and yes this is really embarrassing and yes BSOD do happen a lot
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Image of gusnyc.com gusnyc.com at 11:47 AM on 08/11/08
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photo chop
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Image of plwh888 plwh888 at 11:51 AM on 08/11/08
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bad PS . . .

hey, Singapore flag directly above the Union Jack !
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Image of MasterShazbot MasterShazbot at 11:55 AM on 08/11/08
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I do freelance AV stuff and if this *is* real, it was only up there for a split second. Every show computer has a backup and for something like the Olympics I wouldn't be surprised if each show computer had an operator. The operator's job in a situation like this is to hit the button to switch to the backup, then reboot and get the show computer up and running.

show computer = computer running the powerpoint/video/whatever
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Image of dgelwin dgelwin at 12:00 PM on 08/11/08
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I was there, almost at the same spot underneath from where the picture was allegedly taken, staring up the torch holders ass the whole time, and i didnt see any BSOD.
So i call fakes, plus the fact that there are many pictures resembling this one on the net, i guess someone grabbed it modified and posted, since it took a while thats why it wasnt up the very next hour
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Image of Seph Seph at 12:02 PM on 08/11/08
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Guys, although it looks like a legit picture, let's get some facts before making any assumptions.

The "lights and video" part of the show, was controlled by a huge networked system with redundancy all the way. They had 3 full-size lighting consoles, with another 3 as backup. They also utilized 110 media servers -connected to some Christie Roadster projectors- with redundant equipment and failover measures. Sure, technology tends to fail, and in the most unexpected and unfortunate conditions, and sure, Windows fails. But if it really failed, it must lasted just a few seconds, until an emergency system took over.
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Image of hypereric hypereric at 12:03 PM on 08/11/08
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I'd say it's real, but fake. Probably some Apple or *Nix fanboi sitting below that section with a pico projector.

(j/k) But it does point out how much fun the near future will be. Imagine a substantial amount of projectors embedded in PMP's and phones. And now your stuck in a darkened auditorium watching and listening to CEO's dreck on the stage. And across the ceiling of where you're sitting, dozens of projected screens of people playing games, someone photochopping an image of the CEO, someone showing off their pr0n collection. Mass anarchy.
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Image of michaelportent michaelportent at 12:08 PM on 08/11/08
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@3r1c: That's exactly what I was thinking. Hahaha.

Steve Jobs, your people better be slapping some neat advertising text on top of these pics, sharpish.
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Image of Ramsay101 Ramsay101 at 12:08 PM on 08/11/08
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If its fake, someone took a lot of time to do the shadows of the rigging that the projection is going over. I say real, you cant expect that much technology to all run 100%, even if it was a $300 million production.
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Image of paulrules paulrules at 12:10 PM on 08/11/08
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I must be a real nerd because now I'm demanding what the stop code was :(
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Image of Lestat Lestat at 12:13 PM on 08/11/08
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And here I thought it was amusing to see the BSoD while walking through NYC on the billboards :)
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Image of tehdahl tehdahl at 12:14 PM on 08/11/08
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I would love to say it's fake...

But you can't fake the text's distortion very accurately as it's projected on the black rigging.

The only thing that was truly sketchy was the mismatched blurs from either shaky picture taking, focus, or someone trying to fake a focus shot.
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Image of NYCRockStar NYCRockStar at 12:34 PM on 08/11/08
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Ummm... Why aren't the CHINESE AV/IT Nerds using a CHINESE-language Windows system?
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Image of TheHairyOne TheHairyOne at 12:34 PM on 08/11/08
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I wonder if that was a licensed copy of the OS¿
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Image of cirby cirby at 12:35 PM on 08/11/08
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CONFIRMED: I found it on my HD DVR recording of the Opening Ceremonies. Angle and color are correct. It's a blue-white smudge on the ceiling at about 4 hours and 24 minutes into the NBC broadcast version. Right after the torch lighting, they have a shot with some women in red dresses, holding flags. It's right above the white flag.

If you saw the ceremonies live and didn't notice it, it's because some tech switched to the backup in less than a second.
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Image of M.A.S. M.A.S. at 12:55 PM on 08/11/08
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@zakharm: Of course it was, you see that BSOD don't you?
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Image of ljj ljj at 12:59 PM on 08/11/08
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This glitch was caused by the Large Hadron Collider.
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Image of Lestat Lestat at 01:20 PM on 08/11/08
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@ljj: LOL, The End is Coming... or The End is Near!
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Image of Paradise Paradise at 01:29 PM on 08/11/08
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@ljj: nice. thank goodness it didn't kill us all, it just killed windows.
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Image of chamychan chamychan at 01:32 PM on 08/11/08
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This is part of the campaign from Microsoft that tells consumers that Vista doesn't suck.

Oh wait...

can you imagine someone hacking into the security flaw and started playing some hardcore porn? THAT would've been the highlight of the night! j/k
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@ljj:

p.s. the employees at LHC already proved the safety of the facility by making us a rap video, if that doesn't convince you I don't know what else it takes to do so.
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Image of ReynaldoRiv ReynaldoRiv at 01:39 PM on 08/11/08
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Jeez... And this is from the same company forcing me to install Silverlight? Why am I not surprised... Like I said before, I'm de-installing this *** the second the Olympics are over
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Image of wetworker wetworker at 01:46 PM on 08/11/08
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Shoped.
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Image of Joseph Joseph at 01:47 PM on 08/11/08
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Probably a screen saver that go locked up.
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Image of Sean Robertson Sean Robertson at 01:51 PM on 08/11/08
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@cirby: HD DVR FTW.
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Image of ripismoney ripismoney at 02:00 PM on 08/11/08
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Ugh I know that city reeked of pollution. Smells like Vista.
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[www.newlaunches.com]

THATS the original picture. someone screwed up the date on the pic. But it looks lidget.
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@chamychan: j/k??? WTF? That would have been hysterical. Either that or some good old fashion Rick-rolling (last year I would have said GoatSe) :)
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Image of bud-strange bud-strange at 02:17 PM on 08/11/08
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This is what happens when you use Windows for anything critical.

Or if you use it at all.

Sooner (and later) it will fail you.

HAHA.
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FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXR....

oops
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Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies! at 02:47 PM on 08/11/08
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Oh please. If they were running the Olympics on a Mac, there would be a giant message about Colonel Panic trying to kill his archnemesis, Init.
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Image of puntai puntai at 02:54 PM on 08/11/08
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wow, someone played Far Cry on the bird's nest too! That's probably what crashed it

[img411.imageshack.us]
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Image of vinnyr vinnyr at 03:17 PM on 08/11/08
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someone will have there head cut off for this..... and that was a fake copy of windows....
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Image of catndhat catndhat at 03:32 PM on 08/11/08
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Is every BSOD in the world in Engrish?
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Image of Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity Git Em SteveDave... at 03:53 PM on 08/11/08
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@catndhat: It's like the word "Shark". It inspires fear and panic in every culture and language in the world.

This is why they should use Mojave.
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@FredicvsMaximvs: In Communist China, not just the flag is red.
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Image of Mike918 Mike918 at 04:01 PM on 08/11/08
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Holy *** this is real! lol...there is no event that microsoft can't fail.
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Image of mitch079 mitch079 at 04:10 PM on 08/11/08
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Best pic ever
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Image of mikail511 mikail511 at 04:17 PM on 08/11/08
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LLZ
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Image of bahiatronic bahiatronic at 04:28 PM on 08/11/08
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It looks like they didn't have enough ram for specific task, or maybe bad ram from Crucial... (look closer)
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Image of JEmlay JEmlay at 04:59 PM on 08/11/08
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I'm assuming BSoD screens have international support?

Why was this screen in English? If English speaking dudes are running the show then why have it in Beijing?

I sure hope the English speaking IT guy was around!!!
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@Sean Robertson: Funny. this was a pointless comment (I've been banned from consumerist before for a "FTW" comment), but you've cleverly subverted the disemvoweling as well. I guess the devisors of the 'disemvoweling' concept forgot about txt speak!
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@zakharm: I am guessing it was a knock-off type sale bought from a vendor with a push cart.

Thats where I got my Rolix watch.

Its probably Winduhs XP, with the Blue Screen of Sorta Dead.
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13 billion = ultimate fail. thanks windows.
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Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi at 06:28 PM on 08/11/08
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You guys don't get it.. this was part of the show.
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Image of KylejvT KylejvT at 06:57 PM on 08/11/08
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Would that be the projector to the right on the last image? There is a light source pointing in the general direction with some blue clippping on one of the beams...
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Image of Nubius Nubius at 08:47 PM on 08/11/08
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Sailing the blue skies... thank you once again Microsoft.
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Image of Plasmafire Plasmafire at 09:12 PM on 08/11/08
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Do we have a new record for the world's largest Blue Screen of Death?
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Image of Bodypainter Bodypainter at 09:17 PM on 08/11/08
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btw: my mac crashed two times today. and safari froze two times as well. apple computer also crash. this is ridicolous - this show was a masterpiece of programming and totally awsome in timing and perfection. if there was a blue screen: so what! from hundrets of computers who controlled hundrets of projectors, thousands of lights and millions of LEDs one crashed. but i forgot: oh microsoft is so bad! one screen crashed! we don't even know if it was a windows-error, but it is blue - so it MUST be a windows error! guys, you are brainwashed by apple, and you don't even realize this... sad!
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Image of NraButtons NraButtons at 09:46 PM on 08/11/08
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@Bodypainter: Uh, I think the main point of the article is that it's funny for an error message to show up in an Olympic opening ceremony, especially one so masterfully done. No attacks on Microsoft intended, it just happens to be a Windows BSOD (second pic, right near the top in the first line of text).
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Image of nlagos nlagos at 10:26 PM on 08/11/08
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I can guarantee that this is real - and it's there for a whole lot longer than a 'split second'. But if this is the only thing to go wrong - then so be it - better than the flame getting stuck like at Sydney - and so what if the copy of Windows was illegit? What's Microsoft going to do about it?

[rapidshare.de]
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Image of ceez ceez at 11:03 PM on 08/11/08
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what's the stop error?!?!

and i thought they would use the chinese language windows version....hey maybe they outsource american techs which need to read english to be able to fix 'stuff'!
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Image of heroineworshipper heroineworshipper at 02:36 AM on 08/12/08
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You'd think they made HD DVR's that did screen shots by now.

[www.rcgroups.com]
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Image of michaelleung michaelleung at 02:37 AM on 08/12/08
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@cirby: Yeah, I saw it in Hong Kong on TVB HD Jade.
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Image of chrismac86 chrismac86 at 07:21 AM on 08/12/08
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its legit.. for all of you saying its fake because of the angles.. ever heard of keystone??
its alters the projection to make it appear as though the image is being projected from front on when it could be projected from an angle as much as 45 degrees...
as far as it being an english version of windows.. do you really think the chinese put that show on all by themselves?? i mean it would have been mostly done by them but alot of that lighting and production gear would have been sub-hired from other countries.. even though the lighting designer (who is responsible for the synchonisation of lighting and video) and 99% of the workers were chinese, a company called Advanced Communtication equipment was responsible for the technical realisation and automated controll of the show.. doesnt sound very chinese does it??
conclusion??
windows crashed! (im a mac person so this makes my day)haha and this isnt fake in my books.. someone prove me wrong and i will happily stand corrected..

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