Off topic: Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death Thread poster: Claudia Alvis
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Every one hates Microsoft's signature Blue Screen of Death, but this particular one seems hard to forget. I had to post it.
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Vito Smolej
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One of those self-reflective moments...
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A technological advance of this magnitude was long overdue!!
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Heinrich Pesch 
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| They really think of everything | Oct 14, 2008 |
Not the slightest chance to get away without an error message.
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Vitals
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please, accept my condolences
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Claudia Alvis
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TOPIC STARTER | Well received | Oct 14, 2008 |
Vitals wrote:
please, accept my condolences
Mac user I assume.
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Jan Willem van Dormolen (X)
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| No picture... | Oct 14, 2008 |
Claudia Alvis wrote:
I don't see the picture? Have you removed it by any chance?
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| A new feature | Oct 14, 2008 |
Christine Andersen wrote:
I suppose now I'll have to stop surfing about on Proz.com and do some WORK...
Yeah, that might be a new feature on Proz.
Word-Count-Reward Cookie. Wortzähl-Belohnungskeks.
Only after having translated 1000 words, the picture appears.
Have fun at work!
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| We had a bluescreen amonth ago... | Oct 14, 2008 |
when we were about to deliver a big job. VERY annoying, indeed. But our technician managed to recover the data.
Letty
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I find it very unlikely that this is a real pic. The whole point of the bluescreen of death is that Windows has crashed. If Windows crashes you can't have a window pop-up, that's kind of the point. In a DOS-like screen all errors are text based. Sorry for bursting your bubble but this is most likely a photoshop job. Also it would be much harder to perform a print-screen to be able to save the image to the clipboard. You'd either have to use a piggy-back second computer or just take a photo of th... See more
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I agree, it looks like a fake to me...
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| Perhaps not a fake ... | Oct 14, 2008 |
... but a screensaver.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558.aspx
Apparently, the thing is available as a screensaver to scare the wits out of unsuspecting programmers (or translators). And it is actually called "Bluescreen" (there's a download button for it).
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Erik Freitag
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irishpolyglot wrote:
Come on fellow translators, I thought your minds were more analytic than to accept something like this at face value!!
I'm surprised that you think people would take this at face value! The possibility that they do didn't occur to me before I read your post...
Of course it's a fake, but it's good fun anyway...
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Vito Smolej
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This was most likely made by a "Get a Mac" fanatic. Moral of the story: Get a Linux
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