[sminch]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/08/apple_bsod.html

Monday, August 6 12:00 AM ET

Apple's Tiger Will Include BSOD Widget
By Russell Skingsley

Cupertino, CA - Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller announced that the next update to its operating system "Tiger" would come with a blue screen of death widget. He said that this is being released in response to users that need to blend in with their corporate standard operating environments.

"Many users prefer to use a Mac at work but fear the persecution from the IT support staff for not complying with the corporate standard," said Schiller.

Now Mac users can install the BSOD widget and when they see the IT manager approaching simply press "F12." Their screen instantly becomes filled with an image of the blue screen of death. Not only does this fool the IT manager into believing the user is adhering to the corporate standard, it also sends him scurrying back to his office as quickly as possible to avoid fixing the problem.

Schiller suggested that this continues the trend of making Mac OS X more "enterprise friendly."

"What started with Windows file-sharing compatibility that only partly works is further improved with the BSOD widget. We at Apple understand that we need to increase our perception of unreliability if we are to compete with Windows in the workplace. The BSOD widget is big step in that direction."





i can't believe how defensive i'm being, but:

a) it made me laugh,
b) i thought i'd share it, since i'm such a nice fellow, and
c) i searched to check if this had been posted already.

so if anyone out there timelines my arse...

sminch

[OpenStep]

The image size, it's too big! And it stopped being clever about the third time it was posted!

[chris v]

Well, I thought it was funny.

Someone should actually write one. Then you could impress Windows users with how easily MAC's recover from the BSOD. "Look here-- all I've got to do is push the F12 key, and my machine reboots INSTANTLY!"

*jaws drop*

[MacMan4000]

I just made one for this thread, but its broken... how ironic. anyone want to debug for me?

download non-working version

[MacMan4000]

why did my post not bump this thread to the top? this forum is turning buggy... 2nd time today.

it still says 3 replies, when theres obviously 4.

[chris v]

Originally Posted by MacMan4000

I just made one for this thread, but its broken... how ironic. anyone want to debug for me?

download non-working version

Heh. Nice try.

[MacMan4000]

Originally Posted by chris v

Heh. Nice try.

any idea why it doesn't work? or did it magically work for you?

[chris v]

Originally Posted by MacMan4000

any idea why it doesn't work? or did it magically work for you?

No, it flashes for a sec, then gone. I'm not qualified to hazard a guess as to why.

[MacMan4000]

BSOD widget

[chris v]

That's a hoot, if you ask me.