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Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X
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."
...is it possible to have a kernel panic automatically retrieve web content from goatse.cx?
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.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
Likewise in windows you can change the background color and text color of the BSOD (or at least you could uder 98, I haven't had the desire to play around with it under 2000 / XP since they crash much less frequently).
Are you still trying to tell people that XP is stable? I'd say it's worse than 98, which I still have on hand. Neither should be mentioned around OSX or any other Unix derivative. How many mod points are you going to spend promoting such junk? Of course, the Umbral Blot is full of infuriating bullshit a brief Google search shows:
Umbral, do you do anything other than promote M$ and diss everything else? I suppose not, hence your nick name.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Likewise in windows you can change the background color and text color of the BSOD (or at least you could uder 98, I haven't had the desire to play around with it under 2000 / XP since they crash much less frequently).
Are you still trying to tell people that XP is stable? I'd say it's worse than 98, which I still have on hand. Neither should be mentioned around OSX or any other Unix derivative. How many mod points are you going to spend promoting such junk? Of course, the Umbral Blot is full of infuriating bullshit a brief Google search shows:
Umbral, do you do anything other than promote M$ and diss everything else? I suppose not, hence your nick name.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
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:
If it weren't for twitter, what would you do with yourself? At least we agree that Windoze blows blue screens.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
That whooshing sound was an extremely old joke rocketing over your head... Better duck-- the next one might actually hit you! ;)
BTW, for the record, real programmers start indexing at 0, so there's realy only 01 types of people when the measurement criteria is the understanding (or lack thereof) of binary. You sir/madam are, I believe, of the "not understanding" variety.
Either that, or you're making an attempt at humor so subtle that it is perhaps sailing right over my head... Entirely possible, but I'm usually one to pick up on subtle humor.
Smell that? You smell that? Burning karma, son. Nothing in the world smells like that...
Smell that? You smell that? Burning karma, son. Nothing in the world smells like that...