Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X 349
An anonymous reader writes "Possibly nothing in the OS world has as much of a bad rap as the infamous BSOD (blue screen of death) in Microsoft Windows. On the other hand Apple hides the ugly kernel panics behind a nice looking GUI which only tells you its time to restart your dead system. Interestingly Mac OS X kernel has a secret API which lets you decide what your kernel panics are going to look like! In this Mac OS X Internals article Amit Singh explains how to use this API. Apparently you can upload custom panic images into the kernel and there's even a way to test these images by causing a fake panic. The article also shows the ultimate joke is to upload an actual BSOD image for authentic Windows looking panics right inside of OS X."
Sort of unrelated (Score:3, Funny)
I used to have BSOD as my screen saver for an earlier version of Fedora (IIRC). It was always amusing when people would stop by to chat, a little while later, they'd see my PC suddenly BSOD! The looks I'd see (on other people's faces) makes me laugh just remembering.
Let me be the first to say (Score:4, Funny)
Any of you guys hiring?
Old Hat (Score:3, Funny)
Once upon a time, I was chairing an out-of-town meeting with a roomful of engineers. We spent most of the morning working a spreadsheet with margin calculations on it trying to come up with a margin budget that everyone could live with; I was running the machine that drove the projector.
The conversation took a turn away from the spreadsheet, and after a bit the BSOD came up onscreen. The panic in the room was palpable -- everyone figured we'd just lost the whole morning, and quite a few had afternoon flights out.
So I hit the shift key and entered my password to unlock the screen.
The classic BSOD screensaver gets the same amusement factor without the hassle of hacking OSX.
Leave it to apple! (Score:3, Funny)
This is taking things too far... (Score:3, Funny)
What about the Guru? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The world's funniest joke (Score:3, Funny)
You must be new here.
Jokes are supposed to be original.
Ultimate joke.... (Score:4, Funny)
Ya! and then we could like, (snicker, snicker) we could like, bring up pictures of toilet paper on the monitor (snicker, snicker) and they would think (hehe, snicker) they would think they got T.P.'ed! HAHAHAHA!!!!!111!!!
Did anyone else just develop a twitch in their left eye?
Re:Crashes we'd all like to see (Score:1, Funny)
Just be careful this doesn't open a backdoor on your computer. *rimshot*
Re:Well on the upside (Score:5, Funny)
Kind of like knowing that there were:
- 56 bulbs
- 24 horizontal grill bars
- 72 vertical ridges on 1600 sq ft of 1/4" steel
- 20% full gas tank
- 209,000 miles driven
- 3 tread patterns
- 5 axles
- 18 wheels
You still got hit by a truck.
Oligatory Monty Python Reference (Score:4, Funny)
Another promise Microsoft didn't keep... (Score:3, Funny)
a good joke would consist of the following steps (Score:3, Funny)
1) set an Intel build of MacOS to display the BSoD
2) instal bootcamp and a copy of XP, but never actually boot into XP
3) find and install a cheep faulty RAM module that allows MacOS to kernel panic with some degree of frequency.
4) bring the Mac in for service at an Apple store
5) claim that MacOS started displaying the BSoD after you installed Windows.
6) wait for someone to pick up the red phone to Cupertino.
If you're dealing with an older Mac vet, add an obscure reference to Rhapsody and "Red Box" for bonus points and added confusion.
Re:Keep it simple (Score:5, Funny)
You are so not a Mac owner based on these statements.
Bah! You young punks! (Score:5, Funny)
You young punks and blue-screens-of-panic blah, blah blah!
...In my day, we didn't even HAVE screens, just a blinking light and if that light ever stopped blinking, you knew there was trouble, boy...
Redmond... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bah! You young punks! (Score:2, Funny)
What happens if... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not like Microsoft invented it... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sort of unrelated (Score:3, Funny)
I used to use that screensaver too. One time, my old roommate accidentally locked my computer. When BSOD came up, he thought it had crashed.
That's how I discovered he was looking at porn on my computer.
Chairing a Meeting (Score:4, Funny)
Once upon a time, I was chairing an out-of-town meeting with a roomful of engineers...
Picture, if you will, a meeting room filled with terrified engineers, all cowering behind one end of the table and desperately trying to shield their heads from ballistic chairs, being hurled by a Donkey-Kong like Steve Ballmer, who in turn is jumping up and down upon the far end of the table...
I know the Steve Ballmer jokes are old and off-topic (and I don't mean to compare you to him) but the image of "chairing" a meeting full of engineers was just to hilarious not to share.
Becouse you all know... (Score:5, Funny)
And don't get me wrong, I'm typing this on a Mac and I would not trade it for anything else out there
Re:Keep it simple (Score:2, Funny)
What about the other 8? I think you've got a typo there.
Re:Not like Microsoft invented it... (Score:5, Funny)
Error: Type 11
"But I keep typing 11 and nothing's happening"
Re:You want the ultimate joke? (Score:4, Funny)
Once we built a system for C*tibank (T+2) in FoxPro 2.6 for Windows and one of the users actually took a screenshot of the same, put it as background, and then complained our application doesn't work.
We spent 2 FULL days debugging the damn application before we realized the issue.
Oh.... &&%%$$&&
Re:Keep it simple (Score:3, Funny)
Real Programmers don't mix up array indexing and counting the length of an array.
And since the joke envolves the length of the array and not the index of it's last member, I guess the jokes on you.
Re:Keep it simple (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Keep it simple (Score:2, Funny)