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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 02:10 PM
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The computer Bill Gates was using FROZE - Heh Heh
A computer with MS Windows froze when Bill Gates was doing a public demonstration of some new digital photography technology in Vegas - oh the karma! Oh the humanity!

Read about it here.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050106/ap_on_hi_te/gadget_show_gates
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 02:12 PM
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1. It's happened to him before at the '95 (or was it '98) premiere.
The machine blue-screened in front of thousands of observers. There's a clip of it floating around on the web.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 02:12 PM
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2. Nice work, Conan
The errors — which came during what's usually an ode to Microsoft's dominance of the software industry and its increasing control of consumer electronics — prompted the celebrity host, NBC comedian Conan O'Brien, to quip, "Who's in charge of Microsoft, anyway?"
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 02:18 PM
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3. Maybe some geek could sell him a patch for big bucks.
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