Easter+Egg

=Easter Egg in the Cr-48 BIOS=

The firmware team at Google encoded an "Easter egg" in the Cr-48 BIOS that can be viewed by taking the following steps:

 * 1) ====Set your Cr-48 to Developer Mode using the instructions here====
 * 2) ====Press the power button to start your Cr-48====
 * 3) ====When the Chrome OS verification warning screen appears, type the following: xyzzy ====
 * 4) ====The screen will display the image below, a reference to the notorious Blue Screen of Death in Microsoft Windows====



[|Bill Richardson] at Google provided the following details about the origin and contents of this image:
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 * ====The hexadecimal numbers are the ASCII representation of this text:====


 * ====The proper names in the encoded message are the people on the Cr-48 firmware team.====
 * ====The various library names that appear on the screen are references to the following:====
 * firmware.exe - We are the firmware team, after all.
 * wfrichar.sys - [email address] is me.
 * rspanglr.sys - [email address] is the Cr-48 firmware tech lead.
 * HeartAu.sys - The starship Heart of Gold, from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * DevNull.SYS - /dev/null is the special bitbucket device on *nix systems
 * goglplx.SYS - The Googleplex is what some people call the Google corporate headquarters
 * mstrclas.SYS - Those who rule the firmware are the Master Class!
 * MstrShak.SYS - Master Shake, from the TV show Aqua Teen Hunger Force
 * Vega.SYS - Originaly vga.sys (a video driver); I thought of the car from Chevrolet
 * Nova.SYS - Another old Chevy
 * Gremlin.SYS - Yet another old car, this one from AMC
 * TARDIS.SYS - From Doctor Who, of course
 * Jupiter2.Sys - From the old TV show Lost in Space
 * CAMRA.SYS - The Campaign for Real Ale
 * wntrmute.sys - The AI Wintermute, from William Gibson's Neuromancer
 * rdaneel.sys - R. Daneel Olivaw, from a bunch of Isaac Asimov's novels
 * eschaton.sys - I'm thinking of Charlie Stross' SF novel Singularity Sky
 * sundiver.sys - The novel by David Brin
 * hal.dll - The HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * STARBUG.SYS - The shuttlecraft from the BBC sitcom Red Dwarf
 * kryten.SYS - The android from Red Dwarf
 * lister.sys - The slacker/hero from Red Dwarf
 * HOLLY.SYS - The computer from Red Dwarf
 * SERMOUSE.SYS - Serial mouse driver, I believe
 * PARMOUSE.SYS - So of course there must be a parallel mouse driver
 * MTYMOUSE.SYS - Mighty Mouse! Here I come to save the day! (a cartoon from my childhood)
 * DngrMouS.SYS - Danger Mouse, another mouse-themed cartoon
 * mkymouse.SYS - Some other cartoon mouse of some sort...
 * mnemouse.SYS - ... and his girlfriend.
 * HNdlNqry.sys - The spaceship Hot Needle of Inquiry, from Larry Niven's Ringworld series
 * serial.sys - The serial port driver
 * cereal.SYS - The cereal port driver
 * browser.sys - Chrome OS has a browser, right?
 * bowser.sys - Jon "Bowzer" Bauman
 * shanana.sys - Sha-Na-Na, the band that Bowzer sings in
 * zzzztop.sys - ZZ Top, a band I like better
 * bsod.SYS - This screen
 * enufstop.SYS - Enough! Stop!
 * croskrnl.exe - If the kernel has a name, it would be CrOS.
 * B0Fh - The IT hero in a series of stories by Simon Travaglia
 * NIGHTMAREGREEN - A really Bad Thing from the Laundry series of SF novels by Charlie Stross

Source: [|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome-notebook-pilot/hGf-vdxGGEA/dabDxde7incJ]