Why are Bluescreens Blue? 

Well, accurate at least.

I made a personal clip out of it, _hah!_

That was truly great

no one was marketing the MIPS risc box with slick edit to a windows user i am guessing.

Just like Biden who told the coal miners that when they lose their jobs they can learn to boot, code and crash. Or something like. 🤷‍♂️that.

If you tell them a boring story every time they have a problem maybe they'll stop calling you to fix stupid/simple problems...

Just fix my computer!!

@Gea Sih they’re much less common, but still happen

yeah, thats very true!! real customers love real information!!!!

Sounds like @HeftyJo bills by the hour! 😂

Your aunt was precisely the target audience for Microsoft products.

Aunt... I remember a guy on _software_conference_ asking a guy from Microsoft: - Why do you send my texts to other people? - ??? - When I close MS Word it says: "Your Clipboard is not empty. Contents of the clipboard could be available to the other programs". Why do you send my texts to other people?

@@user-bh6ey1ke4n The Internet stores data on crystals. Everybody knows that.

lol

I remember being a kid sneaking on my dad’s computer, seeing this once, and thinking “oh shit oh shit oh shit”

I don't understand what happened, all I know is that it was related to audio somehow. Basically, I unplugged a speaker from my PC (and it had no other audio output device connected) and it totally screwed my machine. Internet connectivity was completely gone. All "restore Windows" options wouldn't work. I downloaded an install disc image at work to put onto a USB stick, but... Our computers at work won't allow us to copy stuff to USB. So I had to burn it to a CD and use an external DVD drive. But then there was some issue that I can't remember the details of - but it wouldn't read the disc. It took me a solid week to fix. (And it's really bugging me that I can't remember the last problem/solution) But now I make sure that there's ALWAYS some headphones plugged into my computer so that it'll have at least one audio output device.

Also, I forgot to mention - I never got a blue screen. Just sudden "nothing works".

Sounds like a typical PC experience.

No panic

@@noelj62 only Kernel Panic ;)

Thanks, but I’ll pass on that. Prefer serious crashes like kernel panic have a distinctive appearance. Of course I prefer that they don’t happen, but when they do, I want it to be obvious, and NOT FLASHING.

Sounds like he just didn't want his boss to see how many times he was crashing the pc in a day

Thanks! Trying to get a little better each time...

Dave your are not really a good story teller. You are a fantastic story teller! So many topics I’ve always wondered about. Please tell us the history of ctl-alt-del. I saw something about how ms regretted it. Please tell that story please.

Genuinely enjoyed it! Brilliant work!

@@DavesGarage How can you try to be better when you're already the best? Keep it like this..we all like this very, very much!

@@DavesGarage I'm loving the writing style. I think your reading will naturally get better with time. Right now it seems like you're very tense and focused on not making a mistake in reading the prompter.

Why did you put the spoiler right next to the time stamp 😂

Wasnt comedic genius. Just a funny line

The thing that made this story unrealistic? The fact that Dave used a phone book. 😂

Irony: “Vert” means “green” in French.

the circle of life. it's all blue. thats a meme in itself... "Its all... blue?" "Always has been"

You can continue the joke because the background of Windows installation is still blue 😆

@@BrainSlugs83 There was also stuff like Multiedit, Turbo Pascal, Ms basic, clarion... White on blue was kinda mainstream back then.

I wanted to like this comment but the number of likes is 384 so I won't :)

@@BoraHorzaGobuchul Oh yeah... Come to think of it, I distinctly recall the Text-UI of Red Hat 7.1 Linux installer having white, or lightgray on blue as well. I changed the color theme on QBasic/EDIT though.

Glad you liked that one :-)

The startup and shutdown sounds of XP are just so perfect, warm and calming. (Whereas any other system sounds from XP and all later Windows versions just annoy me)

My son built a relay switch with an arduino that is hooked to a small speaker that plays those sounds whenever it turns power on or off. It was a real riot when we had my old Commodore 64 plugged into it.

past support. so you mean fukushima was goint to be okay if there was win10 :P fukushima is bad engineering. with bad windows. they needed lots more complex security systems rather then windows xp. :P

@@ahmetmutlu348 It is a lesson for all the ages of what happens when you don't run windows update.

At least it's not lp0 on fire

Small bug? Nah I’m in the repair menu on my pc (alt pc) and I can’t even reset windows does anyone have an idea how to get my windows back

@@TheFallensChannel what happened? You might need to install a recovery image on a usb and use that

@@smokedice doesn’t work

⁠​⁠@@bappo218if you haven’t been up to date, unless you have a system restore image or a backup image that’s where you have to use a data recovery tool because the OS has shat itself beyond repair

i had a blackscreen before 😥

Red Screen = Wanna Cry?

Fly Screen Doesn't Prevent A Crash Either .

Black Screen with no beeps = Damn you, PCChips!

I once had a dual monitor setup with green on one screen and purple on the other.

@Hamad Asghar We just put an errect dick-pic in our classmates engineering oral presentation. Teachers laughed it off. The student was fucking FURIOUS. This was over 10 years ago. We never dared to tell him it was us. If i did, even today, he would probably slap me. :) He passed btw. With good grades too.

@@booombasa lol wtf 😂

I once installed a BSOD screen saver on my professors presentation machine. I came back the next day to see if it had been removed, and on the desk were pages of notes where he'd been researching the "stop error". I felt horrible!

and my second choice, even over windows 7, is windows 2000. i've used it for gaming, programming, working, serving my old homepage with IIS then with apache... actually maybe windows NT 5 (2000) was the best Windows Ever.

@@booombasa I thought that would be the other way around.

Very interesting, thank you for this history lesson

So what would be the standard procedure or solution back then if that happened on a control room in a live broadcast?

@@mancerrss Turn Off and On again

@@mancerrss seek a new career NOW

@@mancerrss Absolute panic. Producers shout obscene instructions down the line. Cut to commercial break then, Techs scurrying franticly. If hardware, quick hot swap to an a running spare. If a telco service problem, patch panel to a spare feed. If none of above, drown in whisky.

Because Big Bang

@@Rudxain Why is Big Bang Blue?

@@lynthir6323 42 lol XD

blue pretty

Because the developers of it said so

@@ts757arse What doesn't Linux work with?

@@mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38Less and less thanks to hardware manufacturer consolidation but back in the days of the pc hardware wild west a lot of drivers would never be added to the kernel due to the GPL requirements (that’s why Nvidia still has a “proprietary” driver as an offering) or they just wouldn’t at all. Nowadays it’s mostly business software that has specialty hardware or anything phones (it’s really bad there, just like the old days of pc hardware).

“It’s amazing how stable Windows is” Windows 11: crashes 4 times a day.

@@OweblowNo issues here, been running Windows 11 since it launched and I haven't had one BSOD yet, it's been a rock solid OS for me same as 10 was.

@@Oweblowsimply not true, unless you're overclocking or something

They were still making you do that up until recently. I remember that if you plugged a printer in and windows installed the driver, it never worked. If you installed the drivers from the CD or floppies after, it would still not work. You would have to unplug the printer, uninstall the printer driver and software, reboot the system and then reinstall the software from the disk and plug the printer back in when it told you to. It caught me out a few times when I was in a rush.

The guy's last name *did* mean green after all.

he does right in the beginning

Not Repro! By Design! :-) Sounds like we overlapped by about 3 years! Very cool to have you aboard as a subscriber! If you have any non-earthquake footage or even photos of NT test labs, stress labs, or build labs, I don't have any, and it would be very useful in some of my videos. Please let me know if you do have anything to share by chance. Cheers! And tell a friend ;-)

WOAH BARNACULES !

Wowsers! Two RU-vidrs I like :)

Wholesome moment

you're not the minnesotan jeremy berg right? sorry

Ha... no, but the really old ones are called File Managers!

@@DavesGarage HAHAHAHAHAHAH

The youngin's be the explorers.

The task managers

@@DavesGarage Thanks for nearly making spit out my coffee! Side note: This is the first video I've watched of yours. I really enjoyed the pacing and delivery style, but subbed due to the flourishing touches and amount of research collected. P.S. Keep up the great job, you're only sure to improve, as time goes on. P.P.S Already set a calendar notification for your live stream (Feb 28)

Hey, do you know who is responsible for the dull colors in Windows from Win 10 on. The default window title color is white.

@@kcvinu people. people are responsible for the dull colors and flat design on newer windows OS's, the guys at microsoft are just following a trend so it looks good for the majority of people (the same way back in 2009 the Frutiger Aero design was trending)

@@FPSzky Oh I love the Aero glass windows.

This dude is living legacy

@@FPSzky "looks good for designers -the majority of people- " FTFY

TiVo crashes green VMware crashes purple ...ah poo...

@@mrrandomperson3106 ok

Crashing in red Might seem a great sight Unfortunately for you Red is a fright

I am having a fucking stroke reading this

@@board7374 what you stroking....👀

Well, to be fair, someone still had a bug! It should never crash, and if it does, to me that's a bug. Just a question of whose! So smash those keyboards, but remember - it's probably a driver issue :-)

"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer" probably wasn't the best thing to say. I'm sure many people thought their hardware actually was in danger.

As someone who got in to computers just as windows was maturing, I can confidently say that it *was* useful. I may not have prayed to the devs, but I certainly respected them and learned a little bit more about the inner workings every time the system had a problem.

@@DavesGarage Need not be a bug. Same thing happens if there is a hardware issue. Like a memory issue or if someone is overclocking past what is safe. The two main reasons are bad drivers (and Windows have had a bit complex driver model compared to at least Linux) and unstable hardware (temperature, timing, voltage stability mainly)

@@eDoc2020 Some CRT could be destroyed by wrong timing signals. But the main issue is that a memory corruption could garble the file system data, causing permanent information loss of a way greater scale than the last hours of work.

This problem could be avoided by rebooting... Or less testing! The irony :-)

That was actually made by Mark Russinovich too!

@@L-in-oleum Yeah.. I should have remembered that. Mark and all his tools are awesome. Got to see him speak in Vegas at a conference many years ago and his presentation was great..

I have that screen saver on my server. lol

I installed that screensaver on a few computers at university, and ppl kept rebooting the computers until it started giving actual real BSOD :') oops

Hehe, I remember that too. The running prank in the office we had for some time was to do a screen capture of an unlocked computer, hide the icons and make the capture wallpaper. Nobody did this on servers as they were accessed remotely but for sure it was fun on desktops.

Me to! Were is Rusty and Jerome? Rusty played the flute

I caught that, too!

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying them!

Indeed, very thankful! It's really important for this "ancient" history to be archived, and the stories are fascinating!

Yes, they are, but it's such a pity the narrator can't deliver them without mumbling them. If the diction was better, I'm sure he'd have far more subscribers...

@@Chris-hx3om That might be your speakers or headphones. Generic consumer audio (apple pods, anything that has "super bass") usually has pretty muddy low end response. I have no clarity issues with my DAC/ Studio IEMS, or my smaller 2 way desktop TA2020 system.

@@Ratkill I was listening though a Bose noise cancelling headset, and I have no problem with other channels. The guy mumbles, that's the bottom line. I have to concentrate to understand what he was saying. I don't have to do that on any other channel I subscribe to...

Thanks! I wasn't sure how people were going to take that, but I enjoyed doing it :)

I loved it definitely want more of your humour.

Wow, thanks!

Same!

Beside the gold mine. I was completing my professional formation with hands-on experience in those years, so everything Dave says, it represent a leaf from the book of my work story past, and an engaging trip down the memory lane...

I found him the same way

What's the use of moving a value to the same register?

It is used in hotpatching executables. mov eax,eax doesn't block a pipleline, a nop does.

I thought newer CPUs consider this instruction as nop.

I've been trying to figure out _what_ he wanted us to notice about that "scanner build" for the better part of two decades...

Customer Lifecycle Management

And, when it happened, did it limit the career of Win9x?

I mean in general if we take a look at the history of science you could say the same thing about the naming schemes.

@@e3rd922case in point: sonic hedgehog

Love The Friendly Giant ending!

Yeah, computers are an amazing juggling act/magic show that looks easy to the end user/audience. Consider that they cannot faithfully recreate music from the C64 because of "undocumented implementation" of the SID chip. Trans. "We made it work but damned if we know how." To me, that sums up so much. "Got it working, do not touch anything, no, it shouldn't, but it compiles consistantly so..."

Yeah. We literally put lightning into some sand and made it think. Give it some slack. I've been trying to do assembly and operating systems, but there are so many systems you need to remember and study to even have a glimpse of what you can do to talk to the machine, and it's absolutely terrifying.

Forgot, or perhaps I never knew even _Sirs Gate was a developer._ Sad to know you had issues with memory - but hey, at least you had a BSOD to notify you! The last time the RAM on a machine I owned broke, I wasn't notified of it very well. Very lucky you were, Sir! ...yes, that machine used to have too many bluescreens anyway, but this incident occurred long after that issue had gone, after several Windows updates. Anyway, have a good day, _and a good rest-of-your-life!_

@@Brahvim s/he didn't say they were notified easily - that said, bad ram tends to throw form a small pool of typical blu screen codes/given reasons, of course, some of that will overlap with a defective or not-currently-stable cpu core too.

At the time Windows 95 (Chicago) was written, Gates wasn't a coder anymore... In fact, much like Jobs and ATARI, he had never wrote code again since his days with the BASIC interpreter. DOS has no code lines written by Gates (or Ballmer by extension), and ofc Windows neither has, both NT and the DOS based one. Just like Jobs, at time he was only doing corporate boss stuff. Pretty easy to find that in the leaks you can find out there pretty easily. Leaks are a very good way to disclose truth and destroy corporate myths and fairytales.

That would be sweet! Share it, like it, do whatever it takes ;-)

We could exploit the youtube bug in community tab? :-P

Subscribers the moon 🚀🚀🚀

I’ve heard collabs r the way boost a channel. Linus tech tips as suggestion?

Pretty funny how in Linux drivers are almost all in the kernel and very few kernel panics ever happen...

@@machinerin151 Oh, the drivers ran at the same priority (ring 0) for both OS's. As you say, the drivers were just built into the kernel on Linux and dynamically loaded for Windows (which I preferred). I think the main difference in Linux having fewer panics was because it has support for far fewer devices (remember how little wireless networking support there was and still is?). Also, I guess there was better testing for releases, although I remember Windows driver testing was pretty rigorous too, but users could opt to allow non-Windows Certified drivers if they wanted. So, Windows couldn't be blamed for all the Blue Screens :).

​@@machinerin151 That's because those drivers are almost always developed, maintained, and tested by the Linux kernel developers, rather than 3rd parties doing this on their own. You compare that with Windows, where Marvell might write a driver for their latest WiFi chip completely on their own, with its own bugs, and if it crashes, it takes the whole OS down with it. Linux also doesn't have a stable driver API or ABI, so each new version (even minor versions) could introduce changes that require a whole bunch of drivers to be updated to support that version. For official drivers maintained by the Linux kernel team, part of their effort with releasing a new version is updating all the driver code to support the API changes in that version. For 3rd party drivers, they simply stop working with the new version, until the 3rd party developer adapts it to work with the newest changes to the API and ABI. Personally, I wish Linux had a stable driver API and ABI the way Windows does, even if it reduced the incentive for companies to open source and "upstream" their drivers so that they could be maintained as part of the Linux kernel. The biggest reason I want this is because in the smartphone space, companies like Qualcomm decide to (1) write their own drivers and not upstream them; and (2) instead of letting their drivers get broken by the next kernel version, they simply only support that one kernel version, and you end up with a device and chipset that's stuck on an ancient version of the Linux kernel for its entire lifespan. Similarly, you might buy a cheap 10Gbps network card with some obscure controller, and it ships with a CD rom with the source code for the drivers for it, as it doesn't have upstream support. You might then go to compile that code into a kernel module, only for it to fail because it uses a deprecated function that was removed in the latest version of the Linux kernel you're on. Trust me, that's not a fun scenario to be in.

​@@dylanh333so why Linux doesn't develop a driver API and ABI? It's like doing things the hard way just because you want to work extra

@@ionrael Ideological reasons - to discourage maintaining unofficial drivers, and instead get them maintained as part of the upstream kernel (at least that's why I believe they do it), and to also give them more flexibility to make breaking changes within the kernel, if they want to redesign parts of it

while not all, for sure, many 'win' key short cuts predate the win key. Crtl+esc does the same thing. I've gotten used to using crtl+esc instead of the win key because I keep the win key switched off on my keyboard to keep from accidentally hitting it while playing games. Also comes in handy if you're using an old model M. Shift+f10 is the menu key.

@@johngaltline9933 forgot that one Shift+f10 thanks :-)

@@johngaltline9933 Wow, are you from the 90s?

@@SodAlmighty No, a decade earlier, I just appreciate the best keyboard ever made. And as said in my post 2 months ago, I turn off the win key on my current keyboard (it has a switch for this) so that it is not accidentally pressed while in a game, causing the start menu to pop up and pull you out of said game. The actual shortcuts also come in handy when writing scrips, and also are very useful for disabled folk. today's standard 104 key keyboard still only has the same 101 unique keys from the point of view of the computer, with the extra keys internally just being sent as a combination of the needed keys.

@@johngaltline9933 I didn't mean were you born in the 90s, I meant have you travelled in time from then. A switch to disable the Windows key sounds very useful, but that's no reason to keep it disabled when you're not gaming.

when you come from a pioneer saskatchawan family, you gotta be warm hearted

Glad you knew what a BBS was, quite a few have asked!

@@DavesGarage I was a BBS junkie during the 80’s and ran a few myself. I still remember the day when I upgraded to a new 14.4kbps modem and was able to download at 1.4KB per second. It was such a huge speed boost! :-)