A fellow Mac-user popped his head in my office earlier today and showed me an inside joke Apple has built into their OS. With Apple's current operating system (10.5 aka Leopard), there is this really cool feature called "QuickLook". While browsing in a Finder window, if you highlight a document or picture, you can hit the space bar which brings up the document or the picture so you can see it without opening the program that actually created the file - in other words, you can take a quick look at what is in the file.By accident, my friend hit the space bar while highlighting one of the Windows computers on our church's network. And what he saw made him laugh, and he had to share it with me.
What did he see? A CRT monitor with the infamous Windows blue screen of death. :o)
4 comments:
Erin, Jaguar, really? I thought 10.3 was Jaguar and 10.5 was Leopard... I do agree the blue screen of death is funny.
See ya at the end of the month!
Thanks for the correction, Thomas!
QuickLook is one of my favorite features of Leopard. I use it all the time, even in Mail. Got to love a Mac!
I find this often amusing given Apple's notorious history with the paper clip.
I like the mac and my first computer was a mac, but this idea that macs are more stable is just marketing. Every Mac I've owned (granted that was back in OS 8 days) had to have a paper clip handy to reboot the thing when it surely would lock up.
Sure the macs are more stable now, but so are the PC's.
Still I agree the joke is funny.
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