Comments on: Apple’s BSOD Joke is Slightly Amusing

By: ben2talk

ben2talk — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:48:22 +0000

Amazing how you feel the need to defend your poor choice of OS.

Actually, I use XP for games – but only for games and never with anything else – no internet, no networking, no themes or services running, no extra software installed (actually that’s not true – it’s useless unless you install a ton of stuff on top).

I got a BSOD just from installing a game! Nothing to do with hardware!!! Something about a .dll… but I do use linux, and had used my Clonezilla (linux) disk to take an image of the C: partition, so could simply restore it.

Lightning fast framerates? PS3 is faster if you don’t have a very expensive rig – and who is stupid enough to pay that much just for something to play games?

With other operating systems, funny – I never needed a ‘Blue Screen of Knowledge’. Do you use the knowledge? or simply trash it and restore a backup? or are you the stupid kind that tries to fix it and then end up doing a clean install?

By: patatas

patatas — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:29:51 +0000

mac users are assholes. i’m sick of the “ow i’m a mac, so i’m better than everybody!” mentality. who cares if you use a mac dumbass. and i pity those who just use it just to say they use mac and shit (i.e. mr bootcamp boy)

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:43:42 +0000

Well, as a life long Windows L-user, I do have something to say about this. Recently at work (I’m a sysadmin) I was given a few new computers. I now have a Mac running Leopard, an XP box, and a Gentoo Linux box.

I’ve took a few courses in Linux when I was in college and since then have become rather involved in the community. I know the Dos shell, and the L/Unix CLI.

When you look at OS X, closely, you’ll notice its FreeBSD with a pretty little wrapper, A Unix OS. Apple bought out… someone, I don’t recall who, and purchased the rights to FreeBSD. So in actuality, your using Unix.

While both OS X and Windows have their benefits, its all really boils down to personal preference, and personally, I prefer Gentoo Linux. Only cause of the power I have over the system. Plus, my present run-time on the servers is 1085 days without a restart… you gotta love that.

Microsofts benefit is that its great for games, and pretty dang well universal. Plus what your capable of building… its sweet. MY personal gaming box is a Phenom 9600 with 4 gigs of Crucial Ballistix Ram… and well, its a HIGH end machine, total cost? About 1300 bucks. You cant get a Mac for that cheap, at least not a gaming capable one, and thats WITH the Apple employee discount (Yes, I talked with a buddy of mine that works there at the Cupertino HQ).

The beauty of a Mac is really just the shear simplicity. They designed it to be idiot proof and it pretty much is.

By: JRP

JRP — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:42:38 +0000

I think the BSOD Icon is funny.

I like my Windows OS, Linux intrigues me (total n00b tho), and I’d like to spend some time in Leopard.

Funny fact:

My laptop: 8 months old, Dell, Vista Business. 2 lock-ups that couldn’t be solvedby ending a process.

Friends MacBook Pro: 4 months old, OS X Leopard, 1 lock-up of the same magnitude.

I didn’t like Tiger, I’d love to see more of Leopard.

I’d love to play w OS X server, but being a SysAdmin, I doubt I’d like it over WinServer2k8 (or 2k3).

You love Leopard? Cool. I’m happy for you.

You love Vista? Cool. I’m happy for you.

You love XP? Cool. I’m happy for you.

You love Ubuntu? Cool. I’m happy for you.

-JRP

Web – jrptech.f-sw.com