iPanic
So I'm minding my own business, just trying to start up "Classic" (I've still got some archaic software, having only been dragged kicking and screaming into the age of OS X five months ago -- a week before I was laid off, but that's another issue), when my computer freezes up and a strange white on black notice appears telling me, in a low-key sort of conversational tone (in four languages, no less), that I need to restart my computer. WTF?
Seems that OS X, that oh-so-stable OS that "never crashes" -- well, that's true, I guess. It doesn't crash, it just panics. Yes, I had experienced my very first kernel panic. Funny how much it seemed like a good old-fashioned crash, wherein your computer freezes up and displays a notice that "A System Error has occurred" with a cute little bomb and a Restart button that seldom works. But of course it really can't be the same at all, because OS X never crashes.
Just what I need, a computer that needs Prozac.
2 comments:
Ha! I had that once at work. Thought I was being covertly recruited by the U.N. because it couldn't possibly be a crash.
That's a crash. Back when I had OS X installed on a computer that was the oldest it could possibly be and still run OS X, that happened to me a couple times. It was hardware-related, though, so that makes it somewhat forgivable (or at least that's what microsoft claims). I was attaching or attaching or detaching some combination of PC card, USB, hardrive.
Anyway, it is awfully nice of them to provide education in foreign languages when there's a kernel panic.
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