For those we lost, We will not forget 09/11/2001 “Our God given unalienable rights are given to us all as individuals. They tell us what we may do for ourselves, and they are the embodiment of liberty. The so-called rights that government gives to some of us are parcelled out to select groups as classes. They tell us what one class of people may require another to do for them, and they are the very essence of slavery.”
— Perri Nelson, February 9, 2010

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'Blue Screen of Death'

Published Sat, Nov 11 2006 6:31 PM
Technorati Tags: Computers and Internet

In addition to picking up researcher Mark Russinovich and the rest of the Winternals Software team in July, Microsoft has apparently acquired an interesting piece of intellectual property — the Sysinternals "Blue Screen of Death" screensaver.

On Nov. 1, Microsoft added the BlueScreen Screen Saver v3.2 prank software to its TechNet developer web site.

"Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your enemies!" the software claims.

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I've seen altogether too many real BSODs in my time. This one is remarkably genuine looking.

Sysinternals is an interesting acquisition for Microsoft. I've been using their "process explorer" application as my task manager for months now. This tool is wonderful. It beats the heck out of the default task manager and gives a lot more information.

Maybe we'll start to see some improvement in diagnostic software for Windows now?

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