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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: voidmain on 29 October 2002, 07:39

Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: voidmain on 29 October 2002, 07:39
Our cable TV provider has a channel dedicated to local announcements. Basically it's just a slide show of school happenings etc. Well I happened to be flipping through the channels and when I got to this channel I see what looks like a Powerpoint slide, the Windows task bar at the bottom (looks like Win9x). And then theres this big fat Windows error message in the middle of the screen saying a "A Windows error has occurred while ... ... ...". The message isn't very legible on my TV so I can't make out exactly what it says. What a bunch of losers!

It's been stuck in this state for at least a half hour now. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes the Windows loser, I mean technician, to come fix it. Yep, good old reliable Windows comes through again! Maybe I should call them up and tell them I'll set them up with a Linux box so this doesn't happen again. Oh wait, I forgot, the owner of my Cable TV company is also the cofounder of Microsoft. Guess I wouldn't have much luck getting him to change....
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Bazoukas on 29 October 2002, 07:55
Muhahahahahaha. You should take a pic of that man  :D
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Master of Reality on 29 October 2002, 08:00
the community announcement channel (which isnt run by my cable company... they use Linux (http://www.reddens.ca)) also has that happen almost every day I will flip through the channel while skip... after school, and see the windows 98/5 desktop then sometimes i will actually see the computer starting up. Its quite humourous
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: voidmain on 29 October 2002, 08:40
Ok, it's still up with the error. I took my video camera and got a couple of screen shots and dumped them to my PC in for form of JPEGs. The quality is extremely bad but you can tell it's Windows and you can tell it's a typical Windows error message. I could have gotten a much better quality picture if I would have connected my TV to my capture card but that would have been more of a pain in the arse. So where can I stick the pictures (I don't want them on my servers)?
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Bazoukas on 29 October 2002, 21:02
Send them to me VoidMan. I will host them for you.
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: voidmain on 29 October 2002, 21:20
Ok bazoukas, I mailed them to your linuxmail.org address. I told you they were crappy screen shots! Oh well, they're good enough to at least tell that I'm not lying.   (http://smile.gif)

[ October 29, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Bazoukas on 29 October 2002, 21:55
Man i craped my self laughing LOLOL!!!!

Give me a min though. Seems like attbi is being slow and it wont let me upload it on their server. I will try it through my laptop just to see, if that doesnt work i will use Apache from my laptop.

brb
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: voidmain on 29 October 2002, 10:55
Well, here it is how many hours later, and it's still on the same screen with the same error! I somehow feel it will be there until morning when someone comes in and presses the reset button.

It almost looks like the Screen Saver came on and caused some sort of conflict because the text at the bottom of the screen is warped like the "science" screen saver. What a joke!
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: preacher on 29 October 2002, 11:58
Ill be glad to put the pictures up on badconnections if you will send them my way.
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Calum on 29 October 2002, 14:11
are they up anywhere? i want to see.... can you email them to my linuxmail.org address too please void main?

personally i would have got it on video tape for five minutes! it would be funny to get a video tape of them resetting it!

oh yes, and while i'm here, i sent you a PM, void main, just to let you know.

[ October 29, 2002: Message edited by: Calum-21.2 ]

Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: voidmain on 29 October 2002, 14:19
My captures are really not worthy of posting anywhere for good. They are very poor quality. In fact the message isn't even legible. But it's enough to give you an idea of what I see on channel 10 right now (yep, it's still there).  (http://smile.gif)

And Calum, there's a reply to your PM.
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Master of Reality on 29 October 2002, 17:38
fuck.... cant anybody host them??????!!!!!!
OMB, send them to me, my server worx fine....PM
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Calum on 29 October 2002, 21:13
yeah, i'd like to see them too please!
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Pantso on 29 October 2002, 21:24
Come on! Will somebody host these pics? I'd love to see them!   :D
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: DJ on 29 October 2002, 21:42
I will host them if no one has yet, PM me for the email

DJ

[ October 29, 2002: Message edited by: Engineer ]

Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Master of Reality on 30 October 2002, 00:30
i tried to touch them up a bit:

Closeup (http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/images/winerr1.png)
Full Screen (http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/images/winerr2.png)
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: psyjax on 30 October 2002, 00:53
I compresed your Pic's to JPG's. Around 30k each now.

You can view them on my site:

http://www.geocities.com/akakubiyaro2/ (http://www.geocities.com/akakubiyaro2/)

It's kinda cool, cuz Chimera has no popups, so being hosted a geocities ain't that bad  ;)
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: voidmain on 30 October 2002, 00:56
Christ, they're now over half a megabyte! They were only around 50k in the JPEG format I sent them to you in. It took two minutes for it to display.  Maybe you should replace the PNGs with the JPGs I sent. I don't really see any difference.
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: psyjax on 30 October 2002, 01:08
void, I got 'em small on my site
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Master of Reality on 30 October 2002, 01:11
*cough*pussies*cough*

here ya go:
Closeup jpeg (http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/images/winerr1.jpg)
fullscreen jpeg (http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/images/winerr2.jpg)
Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: Pantso on 30 October 2002, 02:08
Nice void! A bit blurry but you can't get a better TV screenshot (generally speaking). Well, a little bit better maybe.    (http://smile.gif)

[ October 29, 2002: Message edited by: Panos ]

Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: voidmain on 30 October 2002, 03:43
quote:
Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:
*cough*pussies*cough*

here ya go:
Closeup jpeg (http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/images/winerr1.jpg)
fullscreen jpeg (http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/images/winerr2.jpg)



Heh heh, I knew that would get your panties in a wad. It's actually not the size, it was the speed. I don't know what you are doing with that 2Mbps upload speed you claim to have but I wasn't getting any of it.    (http://smile.gif)

[ October 29, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Title: Loser Cable TV Service
Post by: emh on 30 October 2002, 03:49
My old high school has this happen to them all the time, too.  Their channel is basically a PowerPoint presentation of everything that is going on in the life of the school district.  Nine times out of ten, I turned on the channel and would only see a Windows message box saying "PowerPoint caused an error that it could not correct.  Please restart PowerPoint" or something to that effect.