Oh Apple, you card: Browsing networked Windows PC's shows blue screens of death
2007-06-29 03:15 PM | 12 comments
Quite the excellent image by Apple, good show:
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Phil on 2007-07-06 03:30 PM (#)
Ion Control? Too much C&C for you.
ryan on 2007-10-05 10:25 PM (#)
i love it! Oh and think you meant to say "Oh Apple, you cad" which is the phrase... not "card"
Jake Billo on 2007-10-06 11:03 AM (#)
The phrase actually is "card":
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/card
"Cad" would also probably work in this situation too though.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/card
15. Informal.
a. a person who is amusing or facetious.
b. any person, esp. one with some indicated characteristic: a queer card.
"Cad" would also probably work in this situation too though.
Jake Billo on 2007-10-08 06:55 PM (#)
Apparently StumbleUpon picked up this page. To you naysayers who seem to think Digg-style comments are acceptable: This was something I found amusing when I installed a preview of Leopard - I don't claim to have discovered it. The BSOD does look like the Win9x-style ones though.
Roo on 2007-10-10 08:17 PM (#)
I love it. XD
Casey on 2008-03-10 07:25 PM (#)
I don't get it...
George on 2008-03-14 12:16 PM (#)
Not just Windows machines...I just checked, and my girlfriend's laptop (running Ubuntu) shows a BSOD icon on the network too.
Seems any non-mac is lumped into that category. Funny stuff.
Seems any non-mac is lumped into that category. Funny stuff.
Jake Billo on 2008-03-14 12:39 PM (#)
Definitely a detection on the SMB side of things. Unfortunately, the more accurate desktop for Linux would be the "gray screen with a freaking X."
First time I installed Linux (back before any distribution started with a GUI by default) I didn't know if I'd broken the video card. A gray screen with a black X? That's frightening and full of fail.
First time I installed Linux (back before any distribution started with a GUI by default) I didn't know if I'd broken the video card. A gray screen with a black X? That's frightening and full of fail.
Potskie on 2008-03-15 09:36 PM (#)
The black screen witht he X means xwindows was starting up or was running. That's up to par anyways. Try Ubuntu sometime.
That is some funny chit tho. I wonder if I can make a mod to do that on my linux boxes. The only windows box in this house belongs to my girlfriend.
That is some funny chit tho. I wonder if I can make a mod to do that on my linux boxes. The only windows box in this house belongs to my girlfriend.
Jake Billo on 2008-03-17 12:04 AM (#)
Yeah, this was way before Ubuntu was conceived. I also use twm at school in the Solaris labs, which is distinctly unpleasant.
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