Comments on: Apple FAIL whale?

By: richmcl

richmcl — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:15:49 +0000

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.

By: Brenna

Brenna — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:55:29 +0000

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.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:03:53 +0000

Yeah, that's just the default screensaver. They should have turned that off.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:42:22 +0000

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.

By: matthew

matthew — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:45:07 +0000

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.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:21:37 +0000

I wonder how the Apple fan boys will explain this one!