Oh Apple, you card: Browsing networked Windows PC’s shows blue screens of death
Quite the excellent image by Apple, good show:
Posted by Jake Billo on Friday, June 29, 2007, at 3:15 pm.Filed under Uncategorized.Tagged apple.Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed.You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.
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.
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.
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Ion Control? Too much C&C for you.
Hey, I had to name it *something*.
Haha, this is nice. xD
i love it! Oh and think you meant to say “Oh Apple, you cad” which is the phrase… not “card”
The phrase actually is “card”:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/card
“Cad” would also probably work in this situation too though.
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.
I love it. XD
I don’t get it…
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.
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.
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.
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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