Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 11, 2006 @11:07AM from the creative-wastes-of-time dept.

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."

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Re:Sort of unrelated by Millenniumman · 2006-09-11 11:42 · Score: 0, Troll

You don't understand, The Windows BSOD is a screensaver. When you can count on your OS to crash every 5 minutes, the kernel panic screen is functionally a screensaver.

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How I love my fans. by twitter · 2006-09-11 16:16 · Score: 0, Troll
I'm getting a strange feeling that I've read this before...

That's because you, iced_773, read everything I write. Guys like you are my biggest fans:
- Complementing my competence. You know, I consider it competence that's kept me away from Windoze programming since the early 95 API.
- Calling me a Sith! Now that's funny.
- Calling me a troll again.
- Hey, you love me after all.
If it weren't for twitter, what would you do with yourself? At least we agree that Windoze blows blue screens.
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