There you are rushing your way through the airport to catch a flight. When you look up at the big board of departures to find your gate, what's staring back at you? The blue screen of death. We've all run across a very public system crash or two in our time, where an innocuous software crash has been broadcast by Jumbo-tron to the eyeballs of thousands of travellers, convention go-ers or passers by.
This
Flickr pool is a collection of those little moments the sysadmins of very public machines wish you'd never seen.
Fried payphones,
non-functional gas pumps, and
belly up ATMs. As the cameraman behind
the photo above wrote, "
Something about seeing windows errors pop up at airport terminals doesn't give me a good feeling." I couldn't agree more.
Tags: airports, computer crashes, computer errors, ComputerCrashes, ComputerErrors, system crashes, SystemCrashes
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsMysteriusFeb 22nd 2007 9:19AM
Popular Science Magazine features these sorts of error messages, taken from thisisbroken.com, in one of the back sections. They're quite amusing, as long as you're not the one being inconvenienced. :D
NickFeb 22nd 2007 9:31AM
I was one on a trans atlantic flight when the screen of death appeared on the LCD screen in front of mid movie.
I thought "This is a fly by wire 'plane and they use windows!!!"
Atanas BoevFeb 22nd 2007 2:45PM
And another public error message in this post gives out the poster's username and that he is using windows:)
sathan777Feb 22nd 2007 7:40PM
My sister was under observation in hospital (the kind where they open your skull and place a monitoring grid directly on the brain)and I had to sit there for hours on end watching an EEG display waiting for her to have a seizure so they could inject her with isotopes and film the event.
If you knew how many error messages displayed and the times the system (WIN2K) had to be rebooted you'd really think twice before letting them slice an dice through your grey matter....