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Seen in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.

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One more from my trip to Europe.

One of the things that really surprised me about the Grand Bazaar was that many of the corridors had flat-screen monitors placed every 10 meters or so displaying the Turkish feed of CNBC-e.  It was basically a culture-shock thingy - you don't usually see news channels on TVs in shopping venues in the US.

 

And, of course, those monitors weren't exempt from crashes :):

 

Btw, when we went back the next day, the powers-that-be had resolved whatever issue was going on.

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  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2006
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    July 21, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2006
    Larry,

    First of all, thanks for all the great work...I'm a fan. :)

    Second, we see shots like this all the time.  Thankfully, they include BSOD's less and less these days.  Nonetheless, they're common enough that maybe there's a common use case where error messages like this might be better suppressed if there is a better thing to do.  Do you have any thoughts?  Comments?
  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2006
    I've thought of making sure my camera was available to take "Blue Screen of Death" photos, but I never seem to have it handy.  My two favourites were:

    At Fort Lauderdale (FL) Airport, behind the Delta counters, I once saw the row of flat-panel monitors displaying:
    Delta-logo / Delta-logo / Delta-logo / BSoD / Delta-logo / ...

    And once, when I was in the NYC subway system, one of the MetroCard vending machines displayed the BSoD.

    OK, OK... we're too easily amused.
  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2006
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    July 21, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2006
    Barry Leiba: This is why cameraphones are so great, you're always carrying a camera!

    I took this one with my phone at the Copenhagen airport:
    http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8317/dsc00910vz1.jpg
    It's as if it's a free advertising point for Microsoft :)
  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2006
    Friday, July 21, 2006 11:29 PM by Ramon Sola [MVP Windows - Shell/User]
    > I think the engineers who built this system don't find those
    > faults funny at all.

    At least one, who built part of the system, sure seems to.  I thank that engineer very much for starting this thread in his blog.

    Friday, July 21, 2006 11:33 PM by LarryOsterman
    > I got a non trivial amount of grief from my family for taking
    > that picture

    Geez, of all the places to get grief from over capturing and reporting a bug.
  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2006
    When I went to the millenium dome in London for the millenium exhibition there was one exhibit which was a room full of trees with lights, and low pedestals with touch screen monitors as the top surface. Each and every monitor was showing a BSOD.
  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2006
    Those monitors are new, I don't remember them being there 2 years ago when I was in Istanbul.

    Anyway, at least TPTB in Turkey were fairly quick about it. Here in Leiden one of the departure times monitors at the train station was stuck on a BSOD for over two months! I looked up the STOP error code it displayed, I don't remember what it was exactly but it seems they had faulty RAM.
  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2006
    Interesting that the "OK" is locali[sz]ed, but the message isn't.  Guess they're using the Turkish version of Windows, but a US-English version of NOD32.
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    July 25, 2006
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    July 25, 2006
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    July 25, 2006
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    May 31, 2009
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