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"When you run your custom Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 program in Microsoft Windows XP, you may receive the following error message:
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.
This problem may occur when you use the /GR and the /MD compiler switches, and the version of the Msvcrt.dll file and of the Msvcirt.dll file is 7.0.x.
Note: This problem does not occur when you use a version of the Msvcrt.dll file and of the Msvcirt.dll file that is earlier than 7.0."
Looks like it was fixed in October 2004. Assuming FasTrac was working the day before, someone likely installed some poorly-behaved crapware ("Check this program out- you can throw shoes at George Bush!") that didn't do proper version checking at install. Almost no apps should ship with their own version of msvcrt anyway. And any modification of a mission critical machine should be accompied by testing, so even if it wasn't as I described (i.e. - a legitimate software install instead), it looks like 2 minutes of testing would have found the issue.
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I guess this fanboyism is the latest fad, but just like any fad, it will die out soon I hope.
The application is something called FastTrac. The site:
[www.baronservices.com]
Your fanboyism makes me want to puke, and Gizmodos "journalists" should be ashamed of themselves.
If this is the mentality of the so called "Mac Culture" or whatever, I here by declare that I am a Microsoft fan. Every chance they get at hating on MS, they take. Almost like if they are fighting to become No. 1, since they know they are at No. 2.
I am a PC, and I don't have my head up my ass.
Well I ate way too much, so if you'll excuse me, I have to take a massive CrApple.
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But I know how you got confused, though. When I wrote "low pressure Windows error system" I was referring to the meteorological term: "low pressure system" (actually, the expression and this post is lifted from the intro to a Tom Wait's song called "Emotional Weather Report", from the Nighthawks at the Diner album).
If I was referring to that I would have said "low pressure Windows System error", but that's not the case. I've inserted software so nobody gets confused.
01/01/09
It's like when the President makes a verbal gaffe and the media covers it. When that happens do you go ballistic and make a list of everyone else who also said something stupid that day? Actually, there's more to it even than that.
BSODs bring us together and allow us to celebrate our common culture, like a parade honoring Christopher Columbus. There's always some guy screaming "but Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, so-and-so led an expedition years earlier that blah blah blah..." but that misses the point.
There's a joy in finding and sharing BSODs that transcends any platform and any person. BSODs unite us in our common humanity and remind us that even as technology becomes increasingly integrated in every part of our lives, it is no more perfect than we are.
The day technology ceases to BSOD and our society is deprived of the important ritual of mocking it is the day our leaders will surely implement staged public malfunctions of the most commonly used operating systems, like reenactments of Civil War battles, helping us remember who we are, where we came from, and our shared aspiration to persevere in some sort of organic form.
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It's 2009 people, time to dump the cr@p from MS and go use something that actually works.
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If I saw that on TV, I'd just literally fall on the floor.
That's pathetic, you'd think with all the processing and stuff they do for the weather and the need to keep a stable environment for broadcast, they'd at least have a linux system xD
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Although as soon as the BSOD appeared on the display, the weatherman started nodding his head up and down and repeating over and over again "looks like another cold day in... looks like another cold day in... looks like another cold day in... looks like another cold day in" until a spring popped out of his ear and then he collapsed. Some producer raced into the newsroom and put his palm against the camera lens, and it went to a commercial break.
Apparently there's been a problem with weather display systems and weathermen malfunctioning all around the country hours before New Year's Eve. Something about a leap year bug and clocking firmware, or something.