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Kind of innocuous, bet it stays.

Haha, classic!

it could have had and MDN's flying chair instead

and while we're on the subject... bill gates is a wakner, and so is ballmer. ner ner ner ner ner!

magic word - point. as in what is the...

and i love that it's on a beige crt monitor.

oh that is too funny!

i might have to create a false windows share just so i can see that at home every once in while and laugh....

MW: "ill" as in what the poor BSOD computer is....

That sting a lot more if the 'Swirling Beachball of Purgatory' were not increasingly plaguing my Safari (v. 2 and .3beta)

It's not only a beige monitor, it's 4:3! And robably not square pixels.

Haha, classic. Simply classic. I hope this goes into the final release canditate of Leopard as well. Its too funny. Nice touch on Apple's part. lol.

I too love the way the BSOD is portrayed on a beige monitor, hehe.

Now let's stay on topic and not use this thread to whine about unrelated issues, mmkay? I think this is quite funny and quietly subversive, but I have no idea just how far SJ is willing to push the envelope.

That is an actual screen shot of the XP machine that freaked out when the Mac tried to connect to it.

Just my $0.02

Whereas the Mac just freezes up and you can't do anything but reboot. I like the switch from windows 4 months, but lets not kid ourselves about os x being perfect. My mouse has caused my system to freeze up when the battery died and parallels has crashed me as well.

That deserves to stay in the final build!

The monitor and the screen did it for me. I was prepared and I still LOL.

Last night I watched 1408 and at one point the guys laptop crashed and for a split second you see the BSOD.

Me and my wife got a kick out of it since at work I have a PC and 2 macs. The PC's desktop is the BSOD.

Anthony007

"My mouse has caused my system to freeze up when the battery died and parallels has crashed me as well."

That's total BS! When my mouse battery dies I just put in a new one, the indication that I need to swap batteries is that the cursor doesn't move, so I put in a new battery and away I go, it doesn't "freeze up" my system!

And if Parallels (running Windows) crashes your Mac, whose fault is that? Apple's? I think not!

>And if Parallels (running Windows) crashes your Mac, whose fault is that? Apple's? I think not!

Urgh. Yes, it's Apple's fault. The OS should be able to stand anything an application throws at it without bringing the whole system down. That's the whole point of proper OS design.

Just as it's Microsoft's fault that 3rd party drivers and applications can make Windows so unstable.

FUDsucker Proxy: you don't think i put a new battery in? lol. I did and I still had to reboot to bring it back to life.

I'm just telling it like it is, that's all. I have no agenda.

@ Anthony007 and et tal,

It is a recognized fact that Pc's are cobbled together with the use of independent component manufacturer's, these components may or may not be thoroughly tested to stand upto user demands, therefor under certain conditions that do not necessarily affect everyone these components may fail.

It may not be softwares fault nor indeed the hardware as a whole, hence the differing experiences.

Apple on the other hand retain and demand quality control across the board on all their products, hence the stability to be found on their systems.

Having said that, as recently experienced with a software update, some Macs are making popping noises while other owners say they are'nt.

Life can be cruel or kind, do we blame it or praise it? Or at best, do we just learn to live with its foibles?

and vista has an icon with a mac thats kernel panic'd
big deal

@Anthony007

Did you try pressing the little "connect mouse" button first?