Capture the Hog: BSOD Strikes The Bay

Oh, let's keep it this way!

Blue screen of death...LOL. Why wouldn't they turn off the illumination until they fix it?

J: During the day you can't tell.. maybe no one has told them! :-)

Now, if only we could get the ones in Dundas Square to follow suit... ;)

I actually once did catch the giant LG tower glitching out ... it was frozen with a pop-up window saying "Script error -- do you want to continue running scripts on this page?" It was delightful.

Somebody call Guinness! :P

They should have gotten a mac... then they could have had a kernal panic.

that is pretty funny.

w00t!

Is there a higher quality image somewhere?

Ben: The source is a 10megapixel jpg that I've not put online. Why?

ben probably wants to be able to read the error code so he can cold call the Bay and offer to fix their bad disk sector :P

ha!
Unfortunately, the original isn't readable anymore than this is. The "signs" aren't really signs. They are hanging string of lights that, from a far, can produce images. But they are too widely spaced to read text.

LOL. Thanks for the heads up, no one told me. I've fixed the problem.

What are the dimensions of these screens, does anyone know?

They are 2 storeys high, so, over 20 feet tall, and I'd suspect about 40' wide?

I saw a similar thing on one of the screens in Times Square once.

I love when those screens crash.
I love it more when it's not noticed by the person in charge of the screen for a while.

The better quality image would make for a great desktop image :)

If anyone wants it as a wallpaper image, let me know.

This reminds me of an error message I saw on an electronic billboard in New York York last October.

Photo: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/274138819_dada8a6440_b.jpg

A wallpaper version of that would rock!

I wish I had seen them when it was like that. But unfortunately they are back to normal.

i'd like the original to use as wallpaper...
please?

I certainly would love to have a wallpaper version of that pic. :D

Link to wallpaper: http://tinyurl.com/2cwbxw

If this doesn't let that part of the world know that Macs are TRULY where it's at, then, I fear, not much more will.

which city is this? anywhere in canada i guess, reminds me a bit of victoria

uzuff - The TO in BlogTO is for Toronto.

I saw this the other night but didn't have my camera with me.

I remember watch something like that in the screen of Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. Actually I have one photo, but I don't had time to put its somewhere... LOL xD

looks like the file is ntfs.sys

Thanks Sean,

I was hoping to be able to read it. It's nice to have anyway (I put it in my backgrounds rotation).

holy cr*p, ..they'd better get linux.

Goodness Me! Thats weird and I thought it only happens to my local cable network.

thank you for the screen :))
Mari from Germany

I can't help but wonder what would happen if a UNIX based system ran that thing and displayed a "kernel panic". Would people start running around screaming like morons on their way to the shelters?

Dont live there, but it looks like a fake, isn't it ?

This is why (I tell my students) you will NEVER see Microsoft Windows used in the space program, nuclear power plants, or in life-support systems in hospitals. In other words--no place where life and limb is at stake.

shooped

What is "shooped"?

HappyPanda, In perhaps 20 years of working with Unix (and more recently, Linux) systems, on many different hardware platforms, I've seen a "kernel panic" exactly once, and the pot of coffee spilled on the top of that particular machine that day probably had something to do with it. If it's "mission-critical," folks tend to pick Unix on big boxes and Linux on desktop boxes. MS Windows has 95% of the desktop/consumer market, but 98% of the servers on the Internet are running Unix/Linux. Any questions?

Umm, I've got news for you. Most ATM machines run on NT.

@Bobby Flay Which is exactly why the cashpoint at the shop up the road WILL NEVER WORK.

I have been working with systems for 36 years and have seen every system crash more than once. In 80% of the cases it is related to user / operator error / lack of attention, like coffee on server, This week alone I have had 3 Unix systems bite the farm. Please check the 98% of Servers number, you must remember the internet is world wide, The Linux / Unix / Window numbers depend entirely how the question is asked, and where you are asking.

"Umm, I've got news for you. Most ATM machines run on NT."

Um, news for you....no they don't. Try OS/2 or any flavour of Linux/Unix...not NT.

It was not photoshopped. I saw it myself.

Hello,

In the UK, certain bank machines (ATM) do run Windows NT or 2000. This worries me as I often to see my local ATM (near the office) with a "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error" popup on the screen.

As a Linux user, I tend not to use that machine very often (only in emergencies), as I often wonder if the runtime error could occur after your bank balance is updated but before the cash is dispensed.

Bloody Windows!

There were unused icons on the desktop in Times Square last July: http://a733.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/74/l_d2f98438971626672da2b768843a0adc.jpg