Bork!Bork!Bork! As if to demonstrate that whatever one operating system can do, Windows can do it better, bluer, and upside down, we present a bus stopping only at bork.
Today's example of signage woes - thanks to reader Spike - comes from a Nottingham bus, headed for Recovery (though hopefully the right way up).
According to an eagle-eyed Register reader, the screen normally shows the next few stops, but now it is only displaying a baleful blue screen and a warning that Windows is very unhappy about something.
"Your PC/Device needs to be repaired" is not the message a bus's passengers expect to see.
Upside down Windows recovery screen on a Nottingham bus
Nottingham is a city in the English county of Nottinghamshire and, aside from various tales of Robin Hood-based exploits, is also notable for being the home of the oldest professional football (soccer) club in the English Football League, Notts County.
The display on the bus is quite a bit more up to date, with a recovery screen that looks like something thrown up by Windows 10. The 0xc000000e might be something to do with a Boot Configuration Data file, possibly as a result of a failing or disconnected drive.
While any Register reader worth their IT credentials will have a repair disk to hand, hunting for a suitable port on a bus is likely to be frowned upon by the operator.
And then there is the question of why the display is upside down. Ease of cable routing? Or, more likely, a reflection because the screen is mounted elsewhere. Whatever the reason, orientation can easily be handled in software. However, a tumble into Recovery mode has shown things as they really are. Windows is upside down.
Destination Recovery, or a jaunt to the Upside Down from Netflix drama Stranger Things, is unlikely to be a place the passengers want to go. Windows, it seems, has other ideas. ®
Source: The register