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Windows-haters will be enthralled to hear that my computer suffered the second STOP error of its lifetime while I was delivering people home yesterday. Whitney was removing a DVD from the drive when it suddenly decided that something chronic had happened with its USB drivers, and displayed the fabled Blue Screen of Utter Catastrophe informing her of this. In fact, most of the bottom half of the screen was garbled into nonsense, meaning that not only had the computer crashed, the error screen trying to report the crash had crashed as well. Top marks for effort.
It did make me wonder why the colour blue was chosen for the screen. Red, while more appropriate for such a serious error message, would have looked too terrifying, as would black. Yellow or green would have just been sickly, so it looks like it was the only colour left.
To assist in curing it, I awarded the computer a night while switched off (something that hasn't happened since February), and everything seemed all right again by the morning. It even restarted twice in a row perfectly a couple of days ago, and while it's quite a worrying sign when this is a genuinely surprising thing to happen to a computer, it's a step in the right direction.
It did make me wonder why the colour blue was chosen for the screen. Red, while more appropriate for such a serious error message, would have looked too terrifying, as would black. Yellow or green would have just been sickly, so it looks like it was the only colour left.
To assist in curing it, I awarded the computer a night while switched off (something that hasn't happened since February), and everything seemed all right again by the morning. It even restarted twice in a row perfectly a couple of days ago, and while it's quite a worrying sign when this is a genuinely surprising thing to happen to a computer, it's a step in the right direction.
