Loser Cable TV Service

[voidmain]

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....

[Bazoukas]

Muhahahahahaha. You should take a pic of that man  

[Master of Reality]

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

[voidmain]

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)?

[Bazoukas]

Send them to me VoidMan. I will host them for you.

[voidmain]

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.  

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

[Bazoukas]

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

[voidmain]

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!

[preacher]

Ill be glad to put the pictures up on badconnections if you will send them my way.

[Calum]

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 ]

[voidmain]

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).  

And Calum, there's a reply to your PM.

[Master of Reality]

fuck.... cant anybody host them??????!!!!!!
OMB, send them to me, my server worx fine....PM

[Calum]

yeah, i'd like to see them too please!

[Pantso]

Come on! Will somebody host these pics? I'd love to see them!  

[DJ]

I will host them if no one has yet, PM me for the email

DJ

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