I wonder if there’s a correlation here – The Air Force’s color is blue, and Air Force computers probably display that color on their monitors more than any other, usually with little white letters that, in their techy little way, say “Screw you.”
I know we’re looking for a new slogan. I suggest “An unknown error has occurred…”
-Farva
Barbie’s not the first to see a BSD on a gov computer.
Ah yes, the new slogan.
Should be interesting to see what they come up with…. you know with all the uniform changes… why the hell not?
Hope it’s better than the Army Strong crap. That PR firm needs to get sh*t canned.
Actually, compared to “Army of One” the people I know like the Army Strong slogan – a lot. There were literally cheers for the first Army Strong commercial.
I respectfully disagree…After the new age, Zen, BS, “Army of One” debacle, I think the Army Strong commercials are quite good. I think the theme music is catchy and the messages they try to send get through to the average civ….plus we are the ONLY service that I know of that has developed specific commercials directed at recruiting O’s…When I first saw the one that starts with Washington crossing the Delaware…
The “Army of One” always brought back a Patton speech, the one about “that individuality crap…”
Of course today’s does offer stark contrast to the current (STS) cybercommand spot.
Don’t get me wrong, the initial Army Strong Commercials were pretty awesome.
But, I still say go back to Be All You Can Be. Just with out the cheezy GI Joe music.
When I first entered the Army it was still “Be All You Can Be”. Then a few months later “An Army of One” came out. I remember thinking to myself that it sounded pathetic, little did I realize that it was much worse than that. That was the catalyst for the disaster yet to come.
It’s funny that Barbie talks about pulling his hair out over DTS, especially in light of this comic:http://www.afblues.com/?p=732
Don’t feel bad.. there isn’t a Windows user in the world who hasn’t see the BSOD, usually a the worse possible time.
Aw Farva you know you love us Comm guys. Well, maybe not since Vista became the new SDC….I’m even wanting to crosstrain out now…. o.O
But Wait – Windows 7 and the headaches that will bring is coming….. It may make Vista seem like Win98.
Does anyone have a copy of the “Team Alice” comic from Dec. 9th? It was the secondary comic for that day I believe, but it’s not in the archives.
And usually cured by a quick restart. I’ve only had one in my shop do it and I fixed that by restarting it. Hasn’t happened since… (Granted… I restarted it with a hammer)
Same way my technophobic sister surfs the web. Computers kill themselves in disgust around her. Then her son downloads third party WoW hacks and they call me in a panic. Could you have the Mad Cows drop one on Miami?
Heheh sooo true. We’re in an exercise and one of the computers failed to boot because Windows couldn’t find a .dll file necessary to even start up.
Funnnnnn… >_<
Somehow, I think “Screw You” is a perfectly good slogan in itself. It’s short, to the point, and represents many individuals’ feelings towards the dreaded (and yet far too common on gov’t computers) BSOD.
But that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.
The United States Air Force: Screw You.
Hmm, Sounds fitting.
Rant: ON
The Air Force used to have a good motto with “Aim High.” Despite its drug-related undertones, it at least suggested that we weren’t selectively looking for the best (“The Few. The Proud. Etc.”) but rather like the Army (“Be All You Can Be” and now “Army Strong”) we promised to take just about anybody and make them better.
But then they stumbled. “Step into the Blue.” Huh? Sounds like an invite to a rave. But far, far worse is “No One Comes Close.” Are you kidding me?!? We’re a service that prides itself on precision munitions and your telling me that nobody comes close? Couldn’t we at least have made it “No One Else Comes Close”? (STS is implied for all of the above).
The USMC gets “Heartbreak Ridge” and “Full Metal Jacket.” The Army gets “Black Hawk Down.” The Navy, of course, gets “Top Gun” and I would even argue “Navy SEALs” (as hokey as it was, you know it had to be a good recruitment tool for the guys who wanted to be SEALs). And the Air Force, well, thankfully we’ve gotten beyond “Iron Eagle.” At least now, we have “Transformers” and “Iron Man.”
Can we use that for our slogan? “Join the Air Force and fight giant robots.” At least, “more than meets the eye” would be an improvment over “No One Comes Close.” (STS) /rant
Haha the real reason why Prime won’t let the Air Force reverse engineer their technology is because R&D would somehow screw up awesome alien gear.
*BSD mode on!*
“The Army gets ‘Black Hawk Down’.”
Um…why would the Army *want* “Blackhawk Down”??? That operation was an utter clusterf*ck! We lost two helos, 18 soldiers (and *that* doesn’t count the 83 wounded!); and we didn’t even manage to achieve our objective! (The capture of Somali Warlord General Mohammed Farrah Aidid.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)
He was referencing popular war movies each service is represented in, I don’t think the wiki slap or casulty report was needed or warranted…
Okay, point taken; but I think that it points out the distinct *lack* of movies that show the U.S. Army in a good light. (The only one that I can think of that even comes *close* to doing so is We were Soldiers…, and *it* was ruined — IMO, at least — by Mel Gibson’s injection of “We’re-on-a-Mission-from-God-to-kill-all-them-Dirty-Commie-Heathens” preachiness.)
They first came out with that just as I was getting out…someone in our unit drew a line above the Top of the Urinals and wrote “Aim High” …
Hadn’t seen BSOD since 2002, until I came to work in my current office. The poor new airman here just touches a computer, and it drops within minutes. I told her the computers can sense she doesn’t really know what she is doing, and drop to the blue freeze out of fear. It’s fun being able to mess with airmen. Yes, I do remember that stage in my career; this is called the cruel military tradition called payback for other people’s crimes.
I once told an airman he was so bad with computers that he could make a Apple go to the BSOD.
You have no idea how good it is now. Just wait until everything moves to thin clients and multi-domain workstations. You’ll pray that your only issue was the BSOD! Those can usually be fixed by a reboot or a workstation replacement.
Instead of “an unknown error has occurred” I suggest “an unknowable, unfathomable, and utterly incomprehensible error has occurred.”
Is that a ‘Humble’ Barbie in the middle frame???? Sure looks like it from how it is written. WOW. Never thought I would see that from ‘Barbie’.
Ohhhhh, the dreaded blue screen!!
As we say in comm, “If you’re computer isn’t working, then it’s working perfectly.” As for a new slogan, I would suggest: “Air Force…No, you can’t.”
USAF IA – If you can do your job, we’re not doing ours…
only because you insist on using MicroSloth products.
if we could use proper software we could go back to the MLS ease-of-use we used to have
(deep sigh)
of course…because we at IA absolutely love writing up the paperwork for CMI’s and IA Incidents because they’re fun. It has nothing to do with people abusing the network access, and infecting the GIG with virus’s while they’re shopping for make-up, checking their fantasy football, or posting a classified brief to YouTube so they can access it at an office across the hall…Blame the enforcers for doing their job…not the violaters for not doing theirs.
So is FDCC Vista a complete disaster other bases in the USAF?
US Air Force: Exception Occurred at 0xccccc555
Just a thought from a deployed location, but doesn’t it seem to be funny that BSD stands for both Blue Screen of Death, and Battle Staff Directive?
Coincidence?? I’ll let you decide.
Customer Service: one bomb per customer; no repeat customers.
Maybe I’m not the first to point this out, but Barbie said he was going to pull his hair out…ummmmm…what hair??
United States Air Force :: Error 404
Given my own suspicions, Badger Ops wouldn’t… NAAAAHHHH
Maybe I am a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn’t Coffman know what DLL to delete to cause a BSOD?
I just got a new computer here at work and have had one BSOD without having anything much installed yet. It has reoccurred even now that I have loaded almost everything I need on it. Just Autocad left… Not looking forward to that one on Windows 7 (and NOT an administrator login:(
whoops… It has NOT reoccurred… I can’t spell tonight..
On the comic about “Blue Screen of Death”. Try some Haiku messages. See for
examples http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.html or
http://www.strangeplaces.net/weirdthings/haiku.html or even the “master” site
http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html.
Of course, you could also switch to Linux or BSD software . . . .
A word on Windows:
Why is it so popular? What drives it’s continued security and reliability issues?
It’s popularity is based upon it’s use by major corporations and the USGOV > So when everyone suddenly has a change of heart and follows your advice and switches to Linux or whatever other OS you recommend…then those will be the popular OS’s for use…and for targeting with virus’ as well as increased user requirements meaning that the problems of system failure will be inherited from the previous OS.
US Air Force::ERROR PC LOAD LETTER
Working the Help Desk in a deployed location. Just about everyday somebody calls saying they have the blue screen of death on their computer.
ERROR PC LOAD LETTER? WTF does that mean?
How about “The United States Air Force: Don’t Forget Your Reflective Belt.”
Try stuffing Vista into a machine with 1 Gig RAM and see how much your productivity drops!!!
I think I am about 1/3 as efficient as I used to be…too bad for my customers.
No BSD yet, but so slow, I would appreciate the change in screen!
I had 1 Gig of RAM in my Gov computer, but the video card “borrowed” 200K or 300K and left me with 700-800k to start. Running SDC on 700K really sucked!
There is wrong, then there is Army wrong
New AF slogan: Air Force- If it’s being done right, it’s being done by somebody else.
Air Force Sense!