Microsoft Announces Ads for BSOD

[bigandy]

if only this (http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/10/bsod_ads.html) was true, i'd be tempted to crash the servers i administer every few minutes to see what amusing ad they had!

(not sure if this is the right forum to put this thread in so don't get crabby with me!)

[jsw]

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Classic.

Edit: why would you need to crash the servers? I suspect you could wait a couple of minutes for them to crash themselves, right? ;)

[Veldek]

The best ones (where I really LMAO):

until now has historically served as a display of unintelligible diagnostic data that has not made any sense to anyone, ever, according to a survey conducted by the Gartner Group

it was composed mainly of hexadecimal digits that, which in extreme cases, can lead to hallucinations, epileptic seizures and homosexuality in primates and rats

changing the hue to a more user-friendly beige or aqua have failed

[combatcolin]

He He

[bigandy]

why would you need to crash the servers? I suspect you could wait a couple of minutes for them to crash themselves, right? ;)

very good point. and one that was made clear not half an hour ago - a brand spanking new (i'm not saying nice though, i wanted xserves!) dell poweredge died on me. and i can't get it running again. eyeing up the skip outside and the applestore. lol

;)