Screen Saver Not Funny

[Mike McCarty]

dabicho wrote:
> On 9/19/05, Tom Lettington <t at tl.to> wrote:
> 
>>FC4 has a screen saver that replicates the scrolling text of a system
>>that has just experienced a kernel panic crash. The first and second
>>time I saw this I panicked! I almost went into reinstall system
>>mode, or even worse, start buying new hardware.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> I used to joke with some frinds about how would users reacgt to screensavers
> like this.
> 
> We amused ourselves thinking of the users hitting their LCDs when the
> XTeeVee or the XAnalogTV.
> 
> The bsod got me a few times though... when I saw unknown (to me) messages

The first time I saw one of these, it looked like a Sun Microsystems
Solaris crash/reboot. I did a real-life double take. How on Earth could
my IBM PC be doing a SUN/SOLARIS reboot? It took probably a second or
two for me to figure it out.

Mike
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