Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Feb 2006 17:09 UTC, submitted by gubol123
Someone claims to have found Vista's release date by using a clever trick. "How do I know? Well, Microsoft EMEA has put up a website where you can guess the launch date for Windows Vista. After you submit a date, it plays a hint video. There’s actually a bunch of videos, some of which are quite funny. Anyway, here comes the interesting part: If you take a look at the page source, the videos are hosted on a Microsoft server in Switzerland. And depending on your guess, they are being loaded either from a subdirectory /early/ or another one named /late/. By simple iteration I quickly found that 'early' ends Nov 30th while 'late' starts Dec 1st. So either one of these will be the launch date. If this all is not a dirty little trick from the webmaster, of course..."
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Member since:2005-11-14
You are lucky, then. I've seen the described behaviour more than one time, and it is perfectly true that the default behaviour for XP in case of hardware, driver or kernel error is to reboot without showing any info.
You can check it yourself by performing these steps:
1. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> System
2. Go to Advanced
3. Under the Startup and Recovery section, click Settings...
4. Under System Failure un-check "Automatically restart"
(citing from http://www.tunexp.com/tips/maintain_your_computer/disabling_blue_sc... )
In those case when an autoreboot happens you'll have to uncheck the setting to actually see the blue screen, and normally you'll discover that the video driver hanged the machine :-)
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2005-07-06
Only time my computer has EVER rebooted by itself was (a) when that RPC exploit was out, and it only happened twice before I fixed it (b) my hardware failed (processing overheating)
My other desktop has never rebooted itself. My laptop has never rebooted itself. My work desktop has never rebooted itself.