Aug 12 2008Olympic's Blue Screen Of Death Moment
Apparently a computer went blue screen of death during the opening ceremonies at the Olympics a few days ago. Yep, right when a flying Li Ning was about to wrap up the torch-lighting ceremony too. No idea what the screen was actually supposed to be displaying, but if I had to guess, I'd say definitely not that. Does this count as an epic fail? I was gonna put it in the title, but I know some of you are sensitive about what counts and what doesn't. So, what's the ruling? And how about, instead of a blue screen of death, it was somebody farming gold in World of Warcraft. Would that count?
Hit the jump for a couple more pictures.
Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting [gizmodo]
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奥运会开幕式上的Windows蓝屏 [rivercoolcool]
Thanks to Ruben, who successfully defending his gold medal in coolness this year.
Reader Comments
1. angie - August 12, 2008 12:20 PM
ya thats epic fail alright
2. OMgirl - August 12, 2008 12:20 PM
FIRST?
3. joey - August 12, 2008 12:21 PM
my first first, alright
4. Brandon - August 12, 2008 12:22 PM
FAIL
5. OMgirl - August 12, 2008 12:22 PM
fac! 2nd then..
it was supposed to be a display of doves or something like that.. or maybe it was on purpose to let everybody know about daily issues for the computer geek...
dunnoo
6. http://www.webescape.wordpress.com - August 12, 2008 12:28 PM
I know I'm a f***ing geek when I found that both funny and interesting... and then tried to read what it said...
7. Thumperchica - August 12, 2008 12:32 PM
Epic Fail - & in China, Epic Fail = DEATH for some poor prog
8. H2o Helghast - August 12, 2008 12:37 PM
Ya definitely in the Fail box. and ummm i have to say if it was the states yes one guy or two maybe would definitely be flogged, but as this is in china i would say they just eriticated a couple of city blocks....... Any one want some slightly charred land next to the ocean. i could get you such a deal.
9. DFDF - August 12, 2008 12:59 PM
Somewhere in China another programmer is "volunteering" to be an organ donor..
10. El Basto - August 12, 2008 1:02 PM
Yup, it was an epic fail alright. In contrast #2 and #3 are just plain fails.
But as #7 so accurately pointed out, considering that the people responsible of that are about to (or have already) die horrible, horrible, deaths, it could also be considered an Deathly Epic Fail, or at least their Last Epic Fail.
11. Momboelitist - August 12, 2008 1:04 PM
China may have tried to do too much for these Olympics and it's showing.
12. El Basto - August 12, 2008 1:05 PM
And Bill Gates now has even more blood on his soaking wet hands...
13. Stanza - August 12, 2008 1:05 PM
Aaaahahahahahaha! (wipes tear away) that's high comedy right there....
14. Marcos Garcia - August 12, 2008 1:06 PM
Jeez, it's your birthday. You can epic fail anything and say "I say it's an epic fail because it's my birthday".
And I think they were trying to show a Chinese farming gold in World of Warcraft.
Happy birthday, Geekologie Writer!
15. StlDragoon - August 12, 2008 2:02 PM
This is a LOT of powerful countries, this is the time to show off everything you've got, and it failed on an EPIC proportion.
16. the edge - August 12, 2008 2:04 PM
when i saw this on another site i thought it was photoshopped or something. haha, cant believe its atcually real
17. Fubiz - August 12, 2008 2:10 PM
Funny moment !
18. Michael Bolton - August 12, 2008 2:12 PM
That's an unbelievable EPIC FAIL. Why would they display video using a Windoze box instead of a normal broadcast video stream? The world is watching, and you don't want to rely on a Windows box to stream your video in a live event. That's what professional broadcast equipment was made for. Embarrassing.
19. Uncle Eccoli - August 12, 2008 2:15 PM
Ugh. China's little man syndrome nauseates me - they're so fanatical about manipulating appearances that all you can see is their fanaticism. Their smug little party bosses make me want to kick a puppy.
20. drnecropolis - August 12, 2008 2:20 PM
Mega fail, not quite epic. Especially since it cast a cool looking hue on the crowd below. Hilariously Mega Not-quite Epic Fail or HMNEF for short
21. what does mine say? - August 12, 2008 3:49 PM
F***in shitty ass microsoft os. lol
22. TWHICH? - August 12, 2008 4:16 PM
Code of Fails e.224.6.779.5.23 CLEARLY states this goes beyond epic to CRUSHING FAIL status...
23. slappy - August 12, 2008 4:41 PM
SO EPIC FAIL
no question about it
24. Crappola - August 12, 2008 5:04 PM
Well, whoever was in charge of that side of the screen is now in a torture camp at an undisclosed location in China.
25. TW!TCHDOkTOR - August 12, 2008 5:40 PM
F1RST! wait... where am i? who are you people?
26. Quase - August 12, 2008 5:42 PM
TOTAL epic fail... I bet AOTS will pick it up tonight...
27. Assad - August 12, 2008 6:18 PM
How can they possibly execute the person responsible for this BSOD? All Chinese know kungfu, so the guy will be able to defend himself.
Retards.
28. Becca - August 12, 2008 8:11 PM
Totally an epic fail. Poor bastard(s) who f*cked it up... I bet their punishment was insane... #9 "Deathly Epic Fail" lol awesome, #10 hilarious :)
29. Izulien - August 12, 2008 8:15 PM
It isn't Epic Fail, it's just good advertising.... yeah.. that's it...
30. proteon - August 12, 2008 9:11 PM
That ain't THE blue screen of death you EPIC tards.
31. Dewey - August 12, 2008 9:33 PM
Meh, it's China. That's a pirated copy anyway.
32. K - August 12, 2008 10:10 PM
wait.... what are you guys talking about?! That never happened.... did it? @___@ I was watching the opening cermony and everything went flawlessly.... are you sure? <3
33. iota1 - August 13, 2008 5:17 AM
So in two years I can totally bang those Chinese gymnasts with no problem ... ...
..wait...
What were we talking about???
34. ken - August 13, 2008 11:05 AM
i bet that windows 98 is pirated!
35. han - August 14, 2008 12:09 AM
A Texas company High End Systems provided technoloy support for the Opening Ceremony.Using 120 HES Axon Media Servers in Beijing Olympics
All light and projectors are controlled by Axon Media Servers with 3 Wholehog 3.
Axon Media Servers specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
MB: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
Display: ATI HD2900XT(ASUS)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB
OS: Windows XP Embedded O/S,with DirectX、DirectShow、NET 2.0 Framework
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The guy "now in a torture camp" must be an American.
I'm Chinese. Not every Chinese is hostile to the West.
The West must rely on us, the new generation of China
to achieve Democracy and Freedom in the far east.
36. alexandre - August 14, 2008 9:30 AM
Imagine in few year..a new olympic test..fix a blue screen the more faster..and so..how this bill gate is became billionaire with this shit..how..?
37. Assad - August 18, 2008 12:12 PM
@35 Thank you. I'm surprised at how quickly the other commenters replied saying that someone must be in a prison camp, or being tortured, or executed already.
There's plenty of subtle anti-Chinese propoganda in USA media. Yes, human rights violations do occur in China. But they occur everywhere: in American-run prisons in Abu Graib; in Guantanamo where prisoners are held without habeas corpus; in Yonkers, NY where civilians are bodyslammed into unconsciousness by police, and then prosecuted for obstruction of justice.
But for anyone to accept that these horrible exceptions prove the norm is just plain wrong.
Visit China. Travel and work there for a year. Then come back and tell us about your impressions of human rights in that country.
Until then, you're all a pack of retards, foolishly believing our media's propoganda about the state of affairs abroad.
38. holly - October 4, 2008 8:44 PM
LOL that is an epic fail indeed.. saw a thread on the dreaded blue screen of death today here.. http://www.nettechguide.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2238926
I thought Vista had fixed it tho lol