[Martinus]

Originally posted by Descenterace
'Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.'

Seen this before.  On the 'Jargon File'.

A guy at my college hacked Windows to add this to the BSOD.  The technician's reaction was... funny...

[color=66ff00]If anyone's familiar with the technique pass it on. I could have SOOOO much fun with that.
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[kasperl]

actually hacking windows to add this to the BSOD.

well, i geus you need a hobby, but it's pretty damn funny.

also, would it be possible to create a BSOD in the startup/shutdown screen format? that would be really, really fun.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]If anyone's familiar with the technique pass it on. I could have SOOOO much fun with that.
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"A fatal exception OE has occurred because Windows is a crappy, unreliable operating system programmed by people who don't give a damn about the quality of the product. Please save your work if possible and restart your computer."

[Martinus]

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[Setekh]

"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 customizable one."

I like that program languages humour page, Styxx. Pity there isn't one for Python.

[Styxx]

I was kinda hoping Mikhael would post one, but I don't think he noticed the thread.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
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[kasperl]

well, linux has a BSOD, as a screensaver.

it comes with RH9, as a combo of the BSOD, the Mac variant, the OS/2 variant, and some other OS's i can't remember

[Kamikaze]

I heard somewhere that if you screw the kernel up (i.e. change some source code) you can get a linux BSOD. I've never seen it myself. Closest thing I've seen is a kernel panic.

[kasperl]

and how could you describe that?

[Admiral LSD]

allowing them to instead have a Mauve Screen of Death or even a Paisley Screen of Death

It's actually possible to do that, on Windows 98 at least. I'm not sure how to do it exactly but I'm positive I noticed the option when I was browsing the X-Setup plug-ins once.

It's also possible to make Windows 2000 (and possibly XP as well although I've never tried it) crash on command (USER_INITIATED_CRASH or something is the code) by (I think) holding the Ctrl key and pressing Scroll Lock twice. This "feature" is (naturally) disabled by default (it's controled through a registry key) but an X-Setup plug in also exists to change that.

[phreak]

[TrashMan]

How to implemet one's own mesages?

That haiku poetry rocks!