Cure for Leopard’s blue screen
Posted on October 31, 2007
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Scott Loftesness sent me a note saying he’d had the same ‘blue screen’ experience as I with his Leopard install, but had cured it just by forcing a restart. Worked for me, too… now we’re exploring Leopard…
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Phew, that’s a relief. I’m hoping Apple invest even more in Q&A for 10.6.
So when this has happened to me in the past, the day is ruined. Something broken I can’t fix, don’t know which button to push. Maybe talk to the nice lady in Mumbai for 3 hours (”please be patient sir”). Have bad feeling in tummy because the crappy computer (PC in my case) is making Bill Gates rich and me miserable. My last instance of this was upgrading our Zone Alarm firewall which resulted in a user unfriendly response and having to use the library computer for 2 days.
Do you provide counseling for how not to let computer crashes mess up your life?
Lamar - computers do have a way of driving people nuts - even highly computer-literate people.
Bill Joy, a founder of Sun Microsystems and easily a candidate for most computer-literate person on the planet - found he couldn’t get a printer to work with his new Windows laptop - so he created a whole new computer system called ‘Jini’ in which things are supposed to ‘just work.’
Jini is still a work in progress… maybe Bill should focus on counseling, not technology?
Tiger really does have the feel of ‘not-quite-baked.’ On the one hand, they shipped, on the other hand this Blue Screen thing is showing up for way too many users…
[…] So, Leopard (aka Mac OS 10.5, on the right, above) has performed pretty much flawlessly (excepting the blue screen at install) on a Core Duo Mac Mini. Tiger (Mac OS 10.4.11 at left, on a single-processor G5) has had some USB problems (also seen on our dual processor G5 which has lots of problems under Tiger). […]