Windows on Wheels is back, though the truck has come to a standstill, much like the OS
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/12/07/bork/
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Followers of Microsoft's flagship operating system and its habit of falling over without warning might remember February 2020's excursion into the world of Windows on Wheels and the [1]inevitable black cab BSOD .
Not to be outdone, the screens of Dublin have stepped things up a bit by throwing up a bork over the side of a truck parked outside the Blanchardstown DFS.
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Unlike London's example, the Irish incarnation (submitted by Register reader Mark) looks very much at a standstill. Just like the operating system running behind the scenes. The STOP error itself is of the 0x00000050 variety, and could be caused by anything from registry corruption through to a page fault, and the usual driver or hardware bogeyman.
Either way, something has upset the internals of Windows and the operating system has responded with its usual jelly-in-a-wind-tunnel stability. Only all over the side of a truck.
Truck-based billboards are quite the thing, although this example has been parked up to flash its message at passers-by rather than prowl the tarmac. Sadly, we're not sure what it is supposed to be saying (unless a nearby retailer is planning to flog some BSOD-themed tat).
The same truck was snapped in May 2019 by one of [3]Google's Streetview cameras , but back then the display was resolutely blank.
Far be it from us to point out that quite a bit has happened in the intervening months. But rounding out 2020 a bit damper, rustier, and bluescreened up the wazoo seems somehow very much on trend. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/28/bork_bork_bork/
[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/12/04/irelandbork.jpg
[3] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3927256,-6.3856517,3a,15y,302.67h,90.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU8bDyt0YiBBEfO_xrGcGxw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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Judging by the lack of grass under the Truck it looks like its been there a while.
The BSOD probably almost as long...
You wouldn't want it moving much, if it has a bad driver.
Yeah, I get the idea of having a billboard on a truck (insofar as I understand marketing at all, that is); just not if you're gonna leave it in one place for a year and a half.
Not moving truck
Edit : Damn beaten on the grass point
What Problem?
What's the problem? Just follow instructions. Contact your Sysadmin. In a few hours (or days or months or years) the situation will be set right.
Or not.
Maybe the drivers...
...just wanted their own Stop Sign.
Never had this myself
I have Win10 on 2 desktops and 4 notebooks, Funny enough I've not had the death screen once! Seen it plenty of times elsewhere though!
To be honest, my wife thinks Win10 is brilliant - she can boot to any device, do her thing then shut down. She's chuffed to bits that her work is always available on all the devices and especially her own desktop and notebook.
She says this version of Windows is the best ever - better than Win8.1 her machines came with.
So, should I (re-)tell her that all the machines (she has been using for the last 5-ish years) dual boot to Linux Mint by default and that is what she is using not Win10? Please bare in mind the adage "happy wife happy life" - and yes, she was told about it years ago - I just gave up correcting her,
Re: Never had this myself
Nice testimonial, bro.
Can't be for lack of cooling, judging by the size of the case fan.
Not unusual for this company
Having had the pleasure of sub contracting for the firm that runs these screens i can tell you it’s through lack of maintenance.
They also operated the totem screen that was on El Reg last week in Peterborough.
My company was contracted ad-hoc with looking after the totem screens across the UK and actively monitoring them and fixing if required.
eight months in to a six month contract they stopped paying and cancelled the contract.
They never got serviced as the costs was not factored in by them, every single thing was done as cheaply as possible.
Most of the sites were hand downs from VMG group and passed through seven ad companies until they just fell in to dis-repair.
Anon for obvious reasons
Re: Not unusual for this company
They never got serviced as the costs was not factored in by them, every single thing was done as cheaply as possible.
So -- run by folks with real, actual, MBA degrees practicing what they learned in school?
It's an Apple ad
I had a "please insert disk into drive A:" message on my Windows 8.1 Phone once.
Hey, you kids!
Git yer b0Rken toy orf me lawn!
Hello boys!
Not.