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Re: Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares

#11

Post by DannoHung »

telemachos wrote: post #2

It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…

Oh, I can, but it was a RAM issue. The fated gray screen of death.

Now, my Windows computer that I built a few months ago for playing games... that'll lock up if, get this, you don't use it for a while. BSOD's when nothing happens. Play a game? You're fine. Leave it sitting for 5 minutes? Drops dead.

Re: Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares

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Post by PatrickTulskie »

Does anyone really get that bent out of shape over this anymore? Everyone learned about it 3 years ago.

I'll bet most people can't even tell what the actual icon is when they are browsing on their network. There are tons of icons in OS X with minute details that you don't notice in normal usage of the OS. Ever notice the Lorem Ipsum on the Dictionary icon? How about "ie sucks" on the CSSEdit icon?

Re: Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares

#13

Post by duncanj »

telemachos wrote: post #2

It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…

My iMac routinely locks up when it gets overly confused while playing a DVD. This is probably the only major annoyance the computer gives me, but it is annoying. Perhaps if I used VLC I'd have better luck, but DVD Player and Front Row both cause problems.

Re: Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares

#14

Post by protomyth »

duncanj wrote: post #13
telemachos wrote: post #2

It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…

My iMac routinely locks up when it gets overly confused while playing a DVD. This is probably the only major annoyance the computer gives me, but it is annoying. Perhaps if I used VLC I'd have better luck, but DVD Player and Front Row both cause problems.

That might be a hardware issue, we had a machine doing that and had to get it fixed (not sure what was wrong - applecare with someone else taking it in).

Re: Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares

#16

Post by eru »

DannoHung wrote: post #11
telemachos wrote: post #2

It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…

Oh, I can, but it was a RAM issue. The fated gray screen of death. Now, my Windows computer that I built a few months ago for playing games... that'll lock up if, get this, you don't use it for a while. BSOD's when nothing happens. Play a game? You're fine. Leave it sitting for 5 minutes? Drops dead.

Probably something kicks in when it's idle. (Or it's a green powersaving feature.)

Re: Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares

#17

Post by strebler »

telemachos wrote: post #2

It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…

Ooh, that's not true, I've crashed OSX a fair number of times. Why, just 2 days ago the keyboard on my MB randomly stopped working. I couldn't type a thing (until rebooting). Both my MB and MBP will occasionally have the mouse not show up when waking the machine up (have to reboot), and sometimes freeze when I zoom out to all windows. On my mac pro desktop, I've had the disk utility freeze the entire OS just by running it (without even doing anything), happened at least 3 or 4 times last week.

Oh and my (older) MBP freezes 25% of the time just by plugging something into the dvi port. It's nice when you're just starting a presentation and have to say: "sorry everyone, just let me reboot". That MBP also has issues "waking up", it likes to stay asleep (lazy).

And let's not even get into the shitty batteries and how the MBP will randomly blank out (turn off) with like 20-30% battery life left. No warning, nothing, just powers off.

Re: Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares

#18

Post by harshpotatoes »

DannoHung wrote: post #11
telemachos wrote: post #2

It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…

Oh, I can, but it was a RAM issue. The fated gray screen of death. Now, my Windows computer that I built a few months ago for playing games... that'll lock up if, get this, you don't use it for a while. BSOD's when nothing happens. Play a game? You're fine. Leave it sitting for 5 minutes? Drops dead.

Some hardware might be failing. Have you taken the time to look into the error codes it gives you?

I would also guess that it is trying to use a power saving feature which may not be supported by your computer, as another commenter pointed out.

Re: Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares

#19

Post by glhaynes »

PatrickTulskie wrote: post #12

Does anyone really get that bent out of shape over this anymore? Everyone learned about it 3 years ago. I'll bet most people can't even tell what the actual icon is when they are browsing on their network. There are tons of icons in OS X with minute details that you don't notice in normal usage of the OS. Ever notice the Lorem Ipsum on the Dictionary icon? How about "ie sucks" on the CSSEdit icon?

Had to zoom my CSSEdit icon to see the "ie sucks" for myself. Smug and awesome!

Re: Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares

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Post by ericd »

Tichy wrote: post #8
telemachos wrote: post #2

It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…

I've had it happen, and I also lost data on my MacBook. Apparently a disk was faulty. They say that can happen to anyone, but it never happened to me with non-Apple hardware.

It's just the luck of the draw. I've had multiple HDD failures in the past 10 years on non-apple hardware, owning roughly 5-10 HDDs at any given time.
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