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Originally posted by Ace of SpadesBlue screen of death?
Originally posted by Osmosequote:Originally posted by Ace of SpadesBlue screen of death?Poor Ace. He knows not of the Blue Screen of Death.Gather round, children, for today Moose tells you of one of the most horrible monsters to haunt those who use Windows. Only those fools who put their trust in the pagan god Tux do not fear the creature, for they are too busy preaching of flawed beliefs like open-source to use their computers enough to summon the demon.But I digress. Long ago, back when RAM was in the double digits and there was no Firefox to guide us, we used an Operating System. It was an ancestor of the same Windows XP you use today. We called it Windows 95. People used this OS and were marvelled by it's desktop organizing and it's Task Bar magic. Alas, frequent use would result in the computer not responding, a common problem among the poorly maintained or built computers of the time. Windows 95, however, had a tool to counter this occurance - CTRL ALT DEL.CTRL ALT DEL became our only weapon against the freezes. By pressing the three keys, we could summon a window that allowed us to shut down faulty programs immedietly, solving the problem. Some problems, however, were beyond CTRL ALT DEL's power, and thus we'd try the summoning twice, only to get the Blue Screen of Warning. Twas a herald of the monster to come. The lucky ones could wait patiently and regain control over the situation, but most times the demon appeared.The BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!This screen proclaimed fatal errors and would hijack a program and force you to shut it down. In a rare few cases the demon would close the errornouse program and run away, but nearly every time it would not leave, coming back proclaiming more fatal exceptions and taking over your computer. The only option at this point was to manually restart your computer, and lose all data. Twas a horrid beast.Today, we have the new and improved CTRL ALT DEL to help us in the battle, but we cannot completely escape the monster. So beware, for it still lurks out there, waiting to attack when you least expect it. FEAR!