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BSOD Strikes Bird's Nest During Torch Lighting

gizmodo.com — At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax of the opening ceremonies, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD nestled amongst the Nest's steel twigs. Perhaps an Opening Cermonies IT dude spit out his coffee on the machines in the server room when Li took to the sky?

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  • pakratt0013, on 08/11/2008, -64/+12Wait...when did Microsoft get ownership on the sky?
  • sDigger01, on 08/11/2008, -43/+443Haha thats great, MS gets the gold medal for epic fail...
    • wannapiece, on 08/11/2008, -19/+71Usually a hardware fail
      • Aero347, on 08/11/2008, -8/+42If 13 people dugg you down that's 13 people that don't know what causes the BSOD or think that 0x0000007e couldn't possibly refer to the fact that their hard drive has issues physically.

        Here's a lesson in Troubleshooting 101: BSODs don't come out of thin air- something's wrong with hardware or the way it's been configured (Drivers).
      • num3thod, on 08/11/2008, -24/+6STFU Aero347!
      • TheGuruStud, on 08/11/2008, -12/+6Not as common, but they do come out of thin air, it's windows. It's unreliable and you can't predict it's behavior. Everything can be fine for months and the next minute, without changes, it BSODs, corrupts the boot sector and partition table and says ***** you at the same time. I've seen it many times among other bizarre behavior.
      • Aero347, on 08/12/2008, -2/+3Might want to benchtest your system with memtest - http://www.memtest.org/ let it run the test through for a few hours.
        Sounds like a faulty DIMM..
      • superal1394, on 08/12/2008, -4/+4I've been working in a computer repair shop for several months now, and it sickens me that my first thought was "bad memory"

        In other news, if this was a linux/os x kernal panic, it would be ZOMG THEY ARE USING MACS/LINUX AT THE OLYMPICS MAJOR KUDOZZZZZZ

        (btw, I'm using and loving my macbook pro)
    • Jhiaxuz, on 08/11/2008, -3/+32It can't beat the original though.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzFUcDKC64E
      • Merp08, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4Man, that is freaking bad!
      • infiniphunk, on 08/12/2008, -0/+3"that must be, uh, that must be why we're not shipping Windows98 yet."
    • bazzoola, on 08/11/2008, -19/+6for all "fail" users.. you're gays!
    • mpastrana, on 08/11/2008, -4/+19Olympic Fail
    • ExRe, on 08/11/2008, -6/+16Wait, so it was Microsoft's fault that whoever wrote the 3rd party software used for that sucked?
      • CCmachined, on 08/11/2008, -20/+14because windows was too wussy to deal with the problem: killing / pausing the process or telling the user to fix it? just show a blue screen with cryptic error messages over it? Fail.

        except wait... "a process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectably exited or been terminated." < caused by a third party app eh?
      • mbsjoblom, on 08/11/2008, -19/+8Yes, because a proper operating system will keep on operating even if applications fail...
      • natenovs, on 08/11/2008, -5/+31@CCmachine, mbsjoblom

        BSODs aren't caused by application failures - they are cause by driver failures. drivers are extensions of monolithic kernels, and when they crash, the bsod is the error message. fwiw, osx, bsd, and the linux kernel all suffer from the same issue, they're just called kernel panics or sad mac face screen.
      • Aero347, on 08/11/2008, -6/+16Thank you natenovs, it's nice to hear from someone with an education for a change.
      • TheGuruStud, on 08/11/2008, -3/+4Apparently you've never seen an app try to address an area of memory that windows doesn't want it to. Guess what? It BSODs instead of just denying it access and alerting you.
    • himey, on 08/11/2008, -8/+3So much for all of those "Lenovo PC's power the Olympics" ads.
      • bipolarruledout, on 08/11/2008, -2/+4Lenovo makes some of the best laptops out there. I don't care if they are based in china or not.
    • FutureGuy, on 08/11/2008, -2/+16So would that mean that pretty much everything else ran on MS software in a opening ceremony almost everyone agrees went pretty well? So how would that be Epic fail, wait only this one was running Windows, everything else was Linux or Mac?
      • UltraMegaFilms, on 08/11/2008, -1/+17Mac? In China? The only time you'll see a Mac in China is when it rolls off the manufacturing line.
      • bipolarruledout, on 08/11/2008, -3/+3Blame IT for not having redundant hardware or a contingency plan. I'm sure it wasn't for lack of dollars.
    • jabberwolf, on 08/11/2008, -4/+8That's what happens when you buy pirated software.
    • zikronix, on 08/11/2008, -4/+1Hacked by chinese?

      you think Olympics is game?

      I take your motherboard and SMASH it to bits.
    • volacide, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2I can't remember the last time I've seen a BSOD, but I do know that the last time it happened it was because of something I did, as in, overclocking my CPU and RAM.
      • infiniphunk, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2I remember Vista on a Dell about a year ago and seeing it BSOD when we attempted to switch users.
      • volacide, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Well there's your problem. Vista.
    • Gforce20, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Look at the reason for the BSOD.
      "A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated."
      The only times I've seen this on my computer were when I was mucking around with Task Manager, trying to kill memory hogging applications. Eventually I'd accidentally kill csrss.exe or something else like that, and then I'd receive that exact BSOD.
      I suspect sabotage.
  • Darksider, on 08/11/2008, -11/+260Shouldn't that error message be in Chinese?
    • ssatish88, on 08/11/2008, -6/+21My thoughts exactly
    • altgeeky1, on 08/11/2008, -2/+55Lots of Windows software doesn't work right when you run localized Windows. If you want fewer headaches, you run US-local Windows. They may have other reasons, but this is the most likely.

      • smoger, on 08/11/2008, -5/+4but wouldn't the US version of Windows include some kind of encryption or something that can't be exported to China? Im not stating this as fact, im asking a legitimate question because i don't know...
      • bipolarruledout, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4Wasn't unicode supposed to help this problem signifigantly? Perhaps the text mode display font is only in english.
      • zwaldowski, on 08/11/2008, -0/+11@ smoger: Surprisingly, Windows has no locational DRM.

        @bipolarruledout: Yes, it is, but Windows was written in English and system crashes can't follow language packs (even if language packs are installed) because, duh, the system crashed.
    • oneredeye, on 08/11/2008, -3/+109Why would be in Chinese? Nobody reads it when it's in English.
      • PabloMac, on 08/11/2008, -1/+17Nobody has to read that which is permanently burned into memory.
      • bipolarruledout, on 08/11/2008, -0/+10A stop error DOES contain actual technical information as to the cause of the failure.
      • TheGuruStud, on 08/11/2008, -1/+7^^ too bad it can be 1 of 50 different things lol. And sometimes it's practically undocumented lol.
    • BossKey, on 08/11/2008, -3/+39Maybe they didn't, uh, pay for the Chinese version.
    • megadan76, on 08/11/2008, -2/+21It's a pirated version.
    • macwac, on 08/11/2008, -2/+4Supposedly some Swedish and Finnish company is behind a lot of the IT stuff and all the filming - according to what the news on TV told me.
    • bockyPT, on 08/12/2008, -2/+3I've always used Windows in English even though I'm not from an English-speaking country.
      • zlam, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Same here, one of the reasons being that you've sort of learned a lot of short-cuts that does not "translate" well into a localized version. Swedish for me.

        The menus are different when running the Swedish version. Instead of the "File"-menu I get something called "Arkiv" so, that would mean "ALT-A" instead of the usual "ALT-F".

        That would confuse me too much, and my brain would implode. I've a bit of a hard time running OSX on my laptop for this reason. I'm just not as "fast" in OSX as I am in Windows. Soon I shall get the 5th dan of OSX short-cuts!
    • monkeyrun, on 08/12/2008, -1/+5No, Chinese (asian) characters are not available in ASCII.
    • univerio, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1When the system shows a BSOD, it means some thing's ***** up. I would think that they'd just use as little code to display the BSOD as possible, to prevent even more ***** up, which is why the BSOD is always in English.
  • psykeeq, on 08/11/2008, -24/+112Olympic Fail
  • twoblackeyes, on 08/11/2008, -6/+142Now confirmed as real—visible on the NBC broadcast. Haha.
    • TruckStuff, on 08/11/2008, -4/+10[citation needed]
    • B1663r, on 08/11/2008, -4/+16NBC broadcast is a confirmed fake though....
      • someology, on 08/11/2008, -0/+12no joke, after I saw BBC's broadcast and how much NBC chopped out of it, I must agree.
      • gquaglia, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4The fireworks were, anyway.
    • jserio, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3Would be nice to post a screen cap from the broadcast. Also, wonder what this screen was used for. Since it's part of the underside, maybe it was just a TV screen for the audience?
      • zwaldowski, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2The underside was also used for some of the rolling displays during the torch lighting. They sure got that bitch restarted fast!
  • ferrariman60, on 08/11/2008, -7/+500Probably an illegal copy.
    • Syphon0928, on 08/11/2008, -10/+56Did you expect something legit? It's China...
      • IllBeBack, on 08/12/2008, -5/+4Whoosh. That's the joke he was making.
    • dazparkour, on 08/11/2008, -0/+32It's only an illegal copy in China if the Chinese government says so - would you like to be the one to suggest it?
    • liljay2k, on 08/11/2008, -8/+3"BTW, I'm not a Jobs' fan, a Linux geek or a PSer to fake pictures:P And it is reported that the XPe OS used in this ceremony are part of 120 HES Axon Media Servers, so they can't be pirated :P"
      http://rivercoolcool.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D6F0 ...
    • Jacolyte, on 08/12/2008, -0/+7Ah yes, good old XP Pirated Edition.
    • smergs, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2I wouldn't be surprised. The pirated software is sold in so many places in that area of the world that it's hard for the people trying to be legit to know if what they are buying is the ripped off version or the real version. I had friends in college that would always ask us if we wanted them to bring us back any software when they went to visit their home. They would bring back games, OS's and really anything you wanted. I'll never forget the off colored labels that said things like Windows 2002 XP or Windows XP 2003. Things like that. And when you put the software in to install it, it really was different than what we were used to just downloading off of the internet in the states. I don't know where the hell this software they had came from.
  • jgatz, on 08/11/2008, -4/+91hahahahhahaha
    it could only be topped by a copyright popup
  • Moonblade, on 08/11/2008, -27/+13Someone give bill gates a gold metal!
  • rblancarte, on 08/11/2008, -14/+4Gold Medal Fail.
  • todamax, on 08/11/2008, -2/+50Whats the stop code?
    • gcnaddict, on 08/11/2008, -0/+24It was a driver issue, from what I heard.
    • tnoy, on 08/11/2008, -0/+60xF4

      So, it was likely a disk error. Can't read the parameters, though, so I cant be sure.
    • nedzeve, on 08/11/2008, -6/+1Probably using an SSD disk.
    • kingofnexus, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5STOP: 0x000000FA (0x0000000*, 0x8A014260, 0x8A0143D4, 0x80609528)
      * = I can't make out what the letter/number is.
    • 4t0mik, on 08/12/2008, -0/+4Looks to be a typical driver dump code. 0x000000FA signifies a driver issue while the other numbers tell us what driver had the problem and were in it's code it failed to execute (and why). Last number states the reason and it would seem DEP got it. Though I don't feel compelled to research anymore than pulling from memory....
  • NathanMahdavi, on 08/11/2008, -5/+304YOU TOLD US THAT WINDOWS 98 WOULD BE FASTER, AND MORE EFFICIENT WITH BETTER ACCESS TO THE INTERNET!
  • DeuceDiggalow, on 08/11/2008, -38/+4lmaoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111 good product placement
  • chaaalieboy, on 08/11/2008, -19/+12I think Gates should be sent to be "Reeducated" now...
    • cathpah, on 08/11/2008, -7/+3re-educated? he didn't even graduate college!
    • Aero347, on 08/11/2008, -3/+6BSODs don't pop out of thin air dumbass, it's hardware/driver related.
      • num3thod, on 08/11/2008, -3/+2STFU smartass ; - )
      • chaaalieboy, on 08/11/2008, -2/+2Joke... Joke...
      • Atomic1fire, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4I guess that means the driver was a Chinese bootleg
      • GassyTurd, on 08/12/2008, -1/+5My computer NEVER crashes. Guess what, it doesn't have a single Microsoft product on it.
  • metaphyze, on 08/11/2008, -5/+79They thought about calling MS Tech support but reconsidered when they remember their copy of Windows was pirated.
  • ilistenisee, on 08/11/2008, -6/+324wasnt bill gates at the opening ceremony? lol

    "Bill, what's that up there?"
    Bill: "what are u talking about? I don't see anything...*looks away"
    • PabloMac, on 08/11/2008, -22/+12Your funny comment was buried by four of Bill Gates fanboys.
      • ilistenisee, on 08/11/2008, -2/+11haha, i love Bill Gates...nothing against him. All for the laughter...it just had to be done :)
    • Iggins, on 08/11/2008, -15/+6Microsoft is pumping out so much crap, I wouldn't be surprised if Gates has even forgotten what Windows is....
  • ghostlywind, on 08/11/2008, -16/+38Wasn't Bill Gates also attending the opening ceremonies?
  • DeFex, on 08/11/2008, -3/+41another ABIT board bites the dust.
  • jserio, on 08/11/2008, -2/+5Does anyone remember what image was being shown there? I thought all of the graphics were on the inside ring (that he was running next to) and not on the ceiling. Would love to see a screen cap from an HDTV source.
    • antdude, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2I will have to look at my HDTV recording from NBC. I didn't see that but then it might not have the correct angles and timing.
  • AmazingSteve, on 08/11/2008, -4/+162That's what you get for buying your OS in the Fish Market for $3.
    • dafunkmonster, on 08/11/2008, -8/+18irrega copy windows, very fass, good internets, tree darra! tree darra! one time onry!
    • CCmachined, on 08/11/2008, -10/+5oh noez! a proper $0 Linux installation would never crash like that doing such a simple task. Ha!
      • bipolarruledout, on 08/11/2008, -4/+10No, it would. And then the fanboys would bitch endlessly about not having open source drivers while bashing windows for not being more "stable."
      • dobry, on 08/11/2008, -2/+4thank you bipolar, its good to see someone who isnt retarded.
      • Atomic1fire, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5of they were smart, they would have gotten hardware that had a driver for it.
        regardress of operating system this was a epic fair
      • lolfanboys, on 08/12/2008, -2/+0Never seen a kernel panic?

        It'd fail, but nobody would notice because the screen would just freeze while somewhere the caps lock and scroll lock keys blinked on and off on the keyboard.

        But yay Linux rules!!! It crashes more covertly than Windows.
    • PabloMac, on 08/11/2008, -4/+2You get what you pay for.
    • gquaglia, on 08/11/2008, -1/+4Well maybe if they didn't charge $200+ for a real copy, they wouldn't have to.
      • cheezintern, on 08/11/2008, -2/+2don't know where you shop, but I paid $179 for vista ultimate 64..
      • ZellD, on 08/11/2008, -3/+2I love how people quote the OEM price as the legitimate purchasing price of vista. It violates the software license just as much as using you're friends copy to install.
      • dobry, on 08/11/2008, -1/+1No it doesn't. Can I have some money?
      • TheGuruStud, on 08/11/2008, -2/+3PAYING FOR VISTA (let alone any M$ OS) bwahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahah

        That's 179 you'll never get back. At least the dollar is ***** so they made less money off you haha.
    • univerio, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2It costs less. Something like 75 cents...
  • stklaw, on 08/11/2008, -3/+45Why is it that nobody noticed until now?
    • leerayIG88, on 08/11/2008, -3/+81lag.
    • B1663r, on 08/11/2008, -8/+3Because this is as real as the pyrotechnic foot steps...
    • antdude, on 08/11/2008, -1/+7Because not everyone watches it live or on Friday night.
    • locojones, on 08/11/2008, -4/+7Because it takes a couple days for the Photoshoppers to make a couple images to try to generate an internet buzz.
    • dobry, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4it was censored
  • Augie1969, on 08/11/2008, -5/+17This is the most epic thing I've seen all week.
  • scoottie, on 08/11/2008, -2/+11well china probably stopped all imports of MS products around the time of Millennium Edition .....

    i wouldn't be surprised if it was actually an overlay on NBC's broadcast
    • formfactor, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4Why would NBC want to piss off its bed buddy M$?

      You are familiar with the MSNBC companies right?
      • scoottie, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1why do you think the BSOD was caused by NBC on purpose?

        because it was live in most places they couldn't have caught it until it was a rebroadcast.
  • Pic0, on 08/11/2008, -2/+220The IT department is now working in a coal mine.
    • Kenzan, on 08/11/2008, -1/+104Or dead.
    • mufffin, on 08/11/2008, -3/+9I foresee someone from their IT department getting shot today...
    • bipolarruledout, on 08/11/2008, -2/+3RAID isn't exactly rocket science these days. Based on the message it may have been avoidable although I'm not suggesting anyone be executed for it.
  • OrangeTide, on 08/11/2008, -19/+6I can't believe that Microsoft ruined the Olympics. Those pig *****!
  • pupppet, on 08/11/2008, -15/+29That's right because all software written for Windows is flawless and bug-free so the OS itself must be to blame when anything goes wrong.
    • doombot, on 08/11/2008, -20/+19Oh please. If Linux "blue screened" (kernel panicked) every time a program decided to write to the wrong address of memory or to read the contents of an invalid pointer ... then your argument may hold water.

      Sometimes, it *is* the OS's fault for not protecting itself against ***** programs.
      • ExRe, on 08/11/2008, -2/+15But then when Windows tells you that your application can't run because it is a POS and is doing things that it shouldn't, people bitch about Microsoft not letting applications do what they want.
      • natenovs, on 08/11/2008, -1/+11so - delta has touch screens in the back of every plane - you can watch tv, movies, and play games.
        they run linux - how do i know? i just spent a 5 hour flight watching it in a reboot loop the entire time. every 5 minutes, a black screen with a penguin and some text rolling by...
      • dobry, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1learn the stack you fool. also, can you find a link talking about some os i heard about having C2 security with the us government. E3 with UK? i can't seem to remember what os it was.


    • CCmachined, on 08/11/2008, -5/+7"A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectantly exited or been terminated".
      yeah, because processes crucial to system operation are written by third parties.
      • natenovs, on 08/11/2008, -0/+6yeah, they're called device drivers, they're written by device manufacturers.
    • jaypeg, on 08/11/2008, -3/+3Yeah, but this sort of thing happens to Windows all too often, usually at the worst moments. I guess Gates should feel lucky he wasn't demoing something this time.
      • Aero347, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5Dude, BSODs come from falty hardware/drivers. If you're using something before Windows 2000 that is.
        Otherwise Windows Me, 98, and 95 were made so that if an application crashed it would take the whole OS Kernel with it. This was an XP BSOD so it's a hardware/driver problem.
    • numb, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4Everyone here is just guessing. Corrupted hard drive, bad driver, bad memory or other hardware failure? Any of those things can cause a BSOD. Unless someone here has had access to the machine to diagnose it, then they are talking out their ass if they claim to know what caused it.
    • colincornaby, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2"That's right because all software written for Windows is flawless and bug-free so the OS itself must be to blame when anything goes wrong."

      3rd party software in theory can't blue screen Windows. Any blue screen is a flaw in the OS. Yes, 3rd party software can trip that flaw. But it's still a flaw of Windows itself.

      Normally when programs crash you get an unexpected exit, not a blue screen.
  • nomad3d, on 08/11/2008, -16/+5Yay for photoshop....
    • fuzzmeister, on 08/11/2008, -2/+4Looking at the 2nd picture on that page, I'm inclined to think that it's real.
  • krisrm, on 08/11/2008, -14/+3This, my friends, is why we use Windows... *tear*
  • InnerBlueAbyss, on 08/11/2008, -18/+4Ubuntu FTW! Fedora FTW! Oh wait, they chose windows. That's what they get.
    • ZippyV, on 08/11/2008, -2/+12Because Linux never crashes on failing hardware.
    • CCmachined, on 08/11/2008, -3/+2at least it freezes the display, usually. not a huge blue screen that does nothing but attract attention and tell you NOTHING about the problem...
    • lolfanboys, on 08/12/2008, -2/+0Because a frozen display and blinking scroll lock and caps lock keys tell you so much about the problem amirite?
  • rheaume, on 08/11/2008, -18/+6Olympic fake
  • CColtManM, on 08/11/2008, -1/+15At least it didn't happen to the touch software recording Michael Phelps WR time.
  • n666, on 08/11/2008, -0/+256.It's a part of the $100 mil Olympic production, the BSOD is actually 2008 people with small blue and white leds.
  • DrunkCowOfDeath, on 08/11/2008, -12/+5Judging from the Digg formula this story will have no less than 1760 diggs.
  • TheFunnyDigger, on 08/11/2008, -13/+5They'll have to restart that box, but first have a live Linux CD on hand.
    • IllBeBack, on 08/12/2008, -2/+4And since the box has a hardware fault, the Live Linux CD will have a Kernel Panic.
  • MaxIsBored, on 08/11/2008, -3/+13Microsoft goes gold!
    • vvaduva, on 08/11/2008, -0/+6I don't know about that...the landing was a bit off. If you noticed, the starting was perfect but they performance was not consistent. That was probably a 5.5.
  • RadiatedAnt, on 08/11/2008, -11/+8Thats ok the copy was prob pirated anyways.
  • 4321234, on 08/11/2008, -9/+1..but, but, I thought linux was the communist operating system.....
    • CCmachined, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5giving out stuff for free for everybody else out of the good of your soul != communism

      _forcing_ everybody to share out EVERYTHING they produce == communism
      • Atomic1fire, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2giving out stuff for free for everybody else out of the good of your soul and just because your a nice person, allowing them to profit from it != communism
  • HoratioHellpop, on 08/11/2008, -15/+3Fake.
  • tHeSiD, on 08/11/2008, -10/+5why am i seeing this piece of news only on gizmodo and no where else?
    ps bs i guess..
    • pauldy, on 08/11/2008, -1/+2Cause once gizmodo regurgitates these stories in an effort to avoid being associated with gizmodo people would rather just avoid the story at all costs. I'm sure the original author of the post kind of wishes anyone other than gizmodo had reblogged his post.
  • BossKey, on 08/11/2008, -5/+129I loved the ceremony, thought it was awesome.

    But when it became clear just how much of the over-the-top spectacle of the Chinese opening ceremonies depended on massive projections and LED screens, I couldn't help but start praying under my breath:

    "Oh please, oh please, hackers of the world, somebody...rickroll the Olympics!!!"
    • ilistenisee, on 08/11/2008, -10/+4They wouldve been dead in the 24hrs after the opening ceremony.

      You can hack the banking accounts and get hired in the west, but if u hack the Chinese...lol. need I say more?
    • wontstoptalking, on 08/11/2008, -1/+28Holy *****. That would have been the greatest thing in the world. Somebody please get on that right now.
      • BossKey, on 08/11/2008, -0/+41There's still time to see Rick Astley's face pop up in the Closing Ceremonies!
    • siobhankeogh, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2I need to learn to hack, stat.
    • CorwinShiu, on 08/12/2008, -1/+1Considering the Chinese Government, I would say you will get no less then a death sentence.
  • rat2, on 08/11/2008, -9/+9Whats the Stop code?
  • scaaven2, on 08/11/2008, -8/+2I think the web page BSOD'd
  • beingdevious, on 08/11/2008, -3/+25bill gates just did a giant facepalm
    • bipolarruledout, on 08/11/2008, -2/+7Why not? Microsoft didn't write the driver. Now if they SIGNED it then that's another thing entirely.
      • GassyTurd, on 08/12/2008, -8/+4Windows fans are worse than republicans. Admit defeat, losers.
      • beingdevious, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2technicalities... bleh. windows still failed.

        BSOD = FAIL
  • someology, on 08/11/2008, -15/+7This looks fake. Does anyone have any other proof?
  • josepablos, on 08/11/2008, -10/+1i think Chinese government use Linux only.

    priceless moment ..
  • SirZRX, on 08/11/2008, -11/+4i wonder why they used windows instead of linux, i think multipe displays sucks in linux
  • mobling, on 08/11/2008, -1/+4American Pride, albeit Balmer style.
  • chazuk, on 08/11/2008, -2/+62Could have been worse.... It could have been a Windows Genuine Advantage popup....
  • RikkiTikki, on 08/11/2008, -8/+5Everyone is talking about how the opening ceremony was flawless and possibly the best ever. This proves it was ALMOST flawless and possibly the best ever.
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