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To: E. Charters who wrote (1591)6/16/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (1) of 2617
 
From TBTF (Keith Dawson)

..The Blue Screen of Death evolves

Fun with Microsoft's most recongizable display

This phony press release [21] (no charge for the Portugeuse trans-
lation) has been making the rounds. Seems that Microsoft has de-
cided to use the BSOD as a competitive weapon and open it up for
customization.

> Major computer resellers such as Compaq, Gateway, and Dell
> are already lining up for premier placement on the new and
> improved BSOD. [Microsoft president] Balmer concluded by
> getting a dig in against the Open Source community. "This
> just goes to show that Microsoft continues to innovate at a
> much faster pace than open source. I have yet to see any
> evidence that Linux even has a BSOD, let alone a customi-
> zable one."

If art imitates life, then software imitates parody. Release 6.0
of Red Hat Linux features a BSoD simulator [22], a "boss screen":

> bsodsim doesn't stop at just showing a simulated error
> message. If the boss doesn't walk away, the worker can
> continue the illusion by hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL, which causes
> a simulated reboot. After showing the usual boot messages,
> bsodsim will run a simulated SCANDISK program indefinitely.
> The boss won't be able to tell the difference.

Finally, here is a utility [23] you can download to make aesthetic
adjustments in your very own Blue Screen of Death.

[21] penguin.cz
[22] i-want-a-website.com
[23] pla-netx.com
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