There are always two sides to every story – except this one, which is just a big billboard borked in all directions Welcome to another in The Register's occasional series on blue screens and broken dreams. There are two sides to every BSOD. Sure, on the one hand there is Windows demonstrating all the stability of a drunk uncle at a favourite nephew's wedding. On the other is the trail of iffy practices that allowed the OS to get its …
Signage PCs die all the time, because they are normal small PCs wedged in to hot and dusty places with zero maintenance.
I've sold hundreds of Intel NUCs to one customer alone, that stuffs them in to a tiny space in retail displays to drive tree monitors. Once they are installed they are never touched, everything is done remotely with a Logitech k400 Wireless keyboard from outside the display. They are set to restart after power failure so the best can hope for is being power cycled along with rest of the cabinet.
It doesn't matter what OS is the system running if the hardware it's running on is borked.
BSOD have almost exclusively caused by hardware faults since Windows 7.
You cant be serious!
Microsoft's latest Windows 10 update (KB4517389) causes 'Blue Screen of Death' system crashes.
cumulative update KB4532695 is causing blue screen of death—or BSOD critical errors.
The infamous BSOD is also hitting users with KB4535996 installed with the blue screen appearing as Windows loads the login screen.
Windows update KB4343900 causes blue screen of death
I could do this all day...
Having once known an expat Aussie sysadmin whose rather devil-may-care approach to personal use of the company servers and netwok included organising permanently ongoing Half Life tournaments for the IT department and hosting a shared music library that was about half the size of Spotify, I'd be putting this into the "highly plausible" category of possible causes.
You have to refresh a sourdough starter now and then, depending on size, storage temperature and flour used. So you more or less have to keep on baking...
(considering my sourdough - or parts of it - is older than my kids I'd hate to lose it, almost like a pet you only have to feed once a week... the sourdough, not the kids)
Icon: need to bake soon, almost out of bread.
Icon: need to bake soon, almost out of bread.
If you can find any bread flour. I've been having to buy store bread for the last month because it seems like suddenly every other bugger wants to bake their own bread. Rather unfortunately it was my last failed Tesco order that was going to replenish my own stocks so I was caught on the hop.
After this last weekend I'll now have to buy store pizzas as well. I wonder if they've finally worked out how to mass produce pizzas whose bases don't immediately turn into dry cardboard when cooked?
I stocked up for Brexit in case there was no transition deal. Still got a decent amount of flour and yeast, but beginning to get a little concerned now. I've not seen yeast in the shops since the first coronapanic buy. I did three extra bags a white bread flour two week ago. The shop had about 40 or so bags in at the time so I played the "responsible adult" card. Now wish I'd just got as many as they'd let me have 'cos that was the first I'd seen in a while and I've not seen any since. Flour and yeast seem to be about the only things missing from the shops.
Aye, plenty of bog roll but there weren't any eggs tonight (I didn't want any but noticed the shelf was empty). I can only assume everyone is spending their lock down baking cakes and/or bread. I do have enough wholemeal flour to make a couple of loaves but whilst you certainly can make wholemeal pizza base it detracts from the taste and it can be tricky to get the water content right.
On the plus side there was no queuing tonight and it was fairly empty so I was in and out in fifteen minutes.
"Flour and yeast seem to be about the only things missing from the shops."
They have the flour but aren't setup to distribute it in consumer friendly packaging - normally supermarket sales accounts for 4% of flour consumption but currently it accounts for 15%. The rest is in 16Kg/25Kg/bulk carriers
"I wonder if they've finally worked out how to mass produce pizzas whose bases don't immediately turn into dry cardboard when cooked?"
McCain achieved that long ago. Their pizza bases come from the factory as dry cardboard.
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