http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
Most of these corporate "BSODs" are due to poorly written proprietary software.

Work for IT too long and you know how over blown and inefficient these softwares are. OS is blamed just because that is what users see on their screen.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Get a Mac and avoid oil spill.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Also most of these corporate computer problems are due to incompetent IT departments.
IT = some of the dumbest tech people period]]>Jul 23rd 2010 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/This isn't microsofts fault. It's not there fault Transocean doesn't maintain there computers. The problem had been going on for a month and it still wasn't fixed. Besides you can't blame the whole thing on one computer error when there were tons of other know problems that know one bothered to fix.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
And what cleverly named TheSmartGuy said it's almost 100% of the time on poorly written software. Or it could have been poorly maintained hardware (being in the middle of the ocean and obviously ancient).]]>Jul 23rd 2010 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
A bad worker always blames his tools.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
They tried calling Microsoft support but their iPhone 4 kept dropping the call]]>Jul 23rd 2010 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
Lower consequences, same principle.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
Stop! Your spelling is giving me a BSOD.]]>Jul 24th 2010 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 24th 2010 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 24th 2010 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
The truth is that news blogs like Engadget have just as much influence as mainstream journalists, and therefore just as much of an obligation to report things in a responsible and ethical manner. Saying that these bloggers are not journalists is just a cheap way of letting them off the hook for sensationalist and misleading stories.

You're right about one thing though: Fox News being a complete joke.]]>Jul 24th 2010 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
BSOD = black sea of death?]]>Jul 24th 2010 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 24th 2010 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
They should have used Windows Embedded which eliminated a lot of problems for mission critical needs. ]]>Jul 24th 2010 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/so now they wanna bring windows into this because they didnt call someone to come in and fix the problem wow thats sad]]>Jul 24th 2010 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/incompetent IT,
or people using their work computer to browse everything, download everything, and install anything. against the IT department advice.

no department can do things right , if as a user , one put crap that will cause issues ion the machine. crap that is in millions on internet.]]>Jul 24th 2010 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Instead of blaming MS; you and Engadget should blame the incompetent jerkoffs who didn't have the balls to stand up to BP and run an oil rig the right way. There's a reason why I run Adblock on this site. ]]>Jul 24th 2010 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
The reason you hear about Microsoft BSOD's more though is PC users tend to build their own stuff, and many people don't perform proper stress testing, so hardware incompatibilities cause issues. You'll also find that the OSX user-share is still tiny. I'd say that these days, faulty hardware is the most common cause. And from what I observed, users on Windows are more likely to blame Windows, rather than their hardware or themselves, whereas Apple users will tend to blame hardware (because they like to believe Apple bugs don't exist).

That being said, http://imgur.com/zVSSa.jpg is a photo I took at a major retail store here with a section run by Apple employees.

The oil rig was probably getting BSOD's because they had a virus (in which case their IT team are morons), or faulty hardware which is likely. Either way, they can't blame the hardware, because any high risk operation should have redundant computers, and hardware safeguards (which was meant to be the blowout preventer, which they clearly didn't test properly). ]]>Jul 24th 2010 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
I can only sympathize. I just spent the last two weeks removing Microsoft Onecare, which has been discontinued, that caused a nasty BSOD on Dell D630 laptops upon reboot. Since its expiration, something as simple as the printer spooler caused UAC to fail as well. The result? Unable to remove OneCare or do anything UAC related.

http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/280906-vista-suddenly-unable-run-any-programs-require-administrator-rights.html

F*cking typical. If you think that *NIX aren't any better -you are just plain wrong. Sorry, Microsoft [Is Not Responding]]]>Jul 24th 2010 3:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
Its funny how OPS gets rolled into Apps team when people say IT.

According to our Service request DB 90% of the issues arise from poorly coded apps. Server teams and infrastructure teams get blamed for no reason.

This is why we use Software Forensic tools to dig a little deeper and point a huge foam finger at the culprit.]]>Jul 24th 2010 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
Look, if this was an iMac with a kernel panic, you'd be laughing your asses off and you know it so suck it up when it's Windows that has an issue.

Always with the excuses - 'it's probably not the OS but the applications'. Right, it couldn't be one of the many viruses or other malware causing it or some driver conflict or registry corruption? Interesting how that excuse doesn't fly round here when Apple say that a lot of crashes are caused by Flash.

When it's Windows, it's the software to blame. When it's Flash, it's Apple to blame. When Flash crashes on Android who's to blame? Nobody, you just dismiss the crashes and pretend they didn't happen.

I got me a brand new HP laptop recently with the latest and greatest Windows 7 and y'know what, it's a complete and utter piece of shit. The hardware is cheap plastic, and tacky covered in garish stickers, the OS came riddled with all sorts of HP bollocks. When the system is logging in, it just sits there with the spinning disc for like 2 minutes, still with the persistent access notifications, asking to reboot every time I change the slightest little thing.

Unix systems are so much better than this. Their process management makes so much more sense. No registry to think about, all software with a place and everything in its place. If I need to, I can hose the system and restore it to factory condition with my settings and apps in tact in 20 minutes. You try doing that with Windows. You can't even back your registry up easily - even Windows migration doesn't work properly unless you use an install disc.]]>Jul 24th 2010 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
Actually it's all Apple's fault because their OS is so awful that no-one will touch it as an enterprise solution so they had to use Windows.

Or you're a cock. One of the two.]]>Jul 24th 2010 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
On systems BP likely using, the software is least of the problems.

BSOD is most commonly caused by poor device drivers and the hardware (not certified to work under all the stresses of oil rig). Responsibility for at least one of the reasons - poor device drivers - partially lies with MS. I coded in past drivers for both Windows and Linux (mostly latter), and all Windows device drivers I have seen were of generally low quality.

But the BSODs caused by drivers quality quantitatively is peanuts compared to number of dead systems I have seen due to use of uncertified/untested hardware. They simply saved on hardware...]]>Jul 24th 2010 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 24th 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
Rational me: Should have updated your drivers!
Emotional me: Should have used Linux!]]>Jul 24th 2010 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 24th 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 24th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 24th 2010 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 24th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 24th 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/That platform has dynamic tracking. Which means that GPS and thrusters keep it in a stationary orbit on the water and over the pipe. Lose that and you lose the platform connection to the pipe.]]>Jul 24th 2010 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
Spoken like a true "IT Wannabee". You need to get over your "tech-inferiority complex".]]>Jul 24th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/
There you go mistaking engadget for journalism again. Stop that! You'll put an eye out. ]]>Jul 25th 2010 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/

Trust I would love to blame Microsoft, but this is not their fault.
]]>Jul 26th 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/blue-screen-of-death-plagued-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-months/Jul 23rd 2010 10:55PM