Java Updater Crashed on all the Intel JF1 TV PCs, originally uploaded by Josh Bancroft.
This error is currently visible on all of the “propaganda” TVs in the new Intel JF1 office space. The TVs run a windows app to constantly cycle through PowerPoint slide decks, with the occasional canned video clip or traffic cam.
Apparently, the platform wasn’t tested very well, because besides the fact that the TVs can be found in a crashed state more often than not, this “jusched.exe” error is currently showing on top of the content stream on ALL of the TVs in the area (5 or 6, I think).
Yay for Windows! I’d much rather see these powered by Mac Minis, running FlickrFan, or one of the Digg Labs visualizations, or the RSS screensaver, or something! Let us look at anything but Windows errors all day long! 
Update: Someone came along and cleared out the Java Updater crash error, but now this what’s showing on the “smaller” of the two video windows (this appears quite often):
TinyScreenfuls Feed (this blog)
How is it a Windows problem that Sun writes crappy software?
If this was the only error or problem, then I’d agree it was Sun’s fault.
But these things are blatantly, obviously broken more often than not - I rarely walk by and look at them without something crashed, frozen, or an error message like these.
It distracts from the (meager) content that’s displayed. Instead of looking at the content, you get distracted by the crappy UI and constant failures. And I blame THAT on Windows.
Java on Windows (in my experience) just plain sucks. It’s slow, it crashes, it’s buggy. Whether is some random side project or some major big-name company with a Java app, it’s a piece of crap on Windows. I don’t know whether it’s Windows’ fault, or Java’s fault, but the combination is horrible.
If you’re seeing a bunch of non-Java crashes/errors, it sounds to me like Intel needs better system admins. Windows shouldn’t crash all the time. It used to, back in the NT and Windows 9x days, but the Windows Server 2003 and XP product lines have been pretty solid. If apps are crashing left and right, there is something wrong with the system.
This particular app, jusched.exe, is a Windows native program by Sun, that runs once in a while to see if it needs to update the Java VM. I see it crash all the time, on systems besides these. And I agree that Java apps (in general, IME, not just on Windows) suck.
And I don’t know what the application is that’s streaming these slides and canned video. I’ve not poked around on any of these systems to see. It’s centrally controlled from somewhere. My guess is that the vendor of this software convinced Intel that it would be perfect, told them how well it works, and then delivered a buggy product.
Windows itself on these machines is pretty stable. It’s the apps that crash. But, Windows all by itself, fresh and clean, with no apps, is generally pretty solid. Kinda useless, but it’s stable!
Same thing happens on the NM site. Why is it whenever they show CNN, it seems there is always a story about Britney Spears?
Heh. Every time I look and the TV stream thing ISN’T frozen, it seems it’s a story about the polygamists in Texas. What TV network is it that they’re showing, anyway? I’ve never looked that closely, but you’d think it’d be obvious. I wonder if it’s even a real TV network, or “fake” for just this purpose? Ooh, conspiracy theory!
I took the same picture you took and was about to post it…
I find these TV monitors rather ironic… reminds me of the ones at airports. Same crashes, same crap content - only here all the ads are ours.
Yikes
Wait now Josh… you want the OS to be stable and apps that run without crashing? Don’t be silly… that’s crazy talk!