Tag: BLUESCREENOFDEATH

The Windows blue screen of death is an enigmatic thing; unavoidable and menacing, it knows no master, rising unbidden to threaten young and old alike. The blue screen is one of those universal frustrations; like traffic, or multiple waiting rooms at the doctor's office, or finding food between your teeth minutes after an important meeting or rendezvous. It would be something approximating madness ...

There's a lot to love about Wikipedia, and for geeks this page describing the various types of "screens of death" might just push that love into overdrive. While most people are familiar with the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Windows, there are a number of other colors that are also associated with severe unrecoverable errors in various operating systems. The colors run the gamut, and include ...

This, to me, is a breath of fresh air. Microsoft has a freely available screensaver that mimics the much maligned Blue Screen of Death error screen that Windows gives when it crashes in a big bad way. While other prank screensavers have been made that are similar, this one is unique in that all of the identifiable text on the screen is pulled from the system's actual values - so the BSOD looks as ...

I don't know why you'd want to do this, but... Amit Singh explains how to bring the infamous Blue Screen of Death to Mac OS X. The default Mac OS X kernel panic screen isn't nearly as jarring as the Blue Screen of Death; by comparison, it's downright soothing. My iBook and I have survived three kernel panics together over the past two and a half years, none of which raised my blood pressure too ...