I’m here at Terminal C at the Philadelphia Airport, waiting for my flight to San Francisco.
The airport normally has nice bright displays showing all the departing/arriving flights. Not today.
Folks are usually quick to point out a random BSOD on displays as an example of Windows FAIL, so it’s only fair to show that it happens to the best of ‘em.
Truth be told, I don’t know what part of the display is Apple software or hardware.
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I wonder how the Apple fan boys will explain this one!
Looks like the default apple screensaver which shows the machine name (hence the sequential names), and not like a kernel panic message (Apple's equivalent BSOD). My guess is a misconfiguration by the administrator to disable the screensaver. So, Administrator FAIL.
Possibly, Matthew. I didn't see anything that looked like a kernel panic (trust me, I know what they look like) but there were a few screens that had some sort of cryptic networking error message that I didn't photograph. I just thought it was kind of funny, no big deal.
Yeah, that's just the default screensaver. They should have turned that off.
My marketing teacher once told me the idealism of Apple of PC boiled down to a basic human response–when something goes wrong on a PC we piss and moan about how it must be the computer's fault, piece of crap can't handle what I was trying to do. But with your Mac, when it crashes people think, I must have done something wrong. I had every application I have on my computer opened what was I thinking. Maybe I unplugged it. And we make excuses for it. Go Apple. The only 'blameless' technology in the world.
I used to work for Microsoft and it was like a game to see who could find the 'least convenient' BSoD. For me the winner was (at that time) in the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport when all flights were stopped. Since then I saw a great one of a projection about 5 stories tall.