One immediately realizes Apple computers are very artsy, and why they’re loved by designers and such. Instead of showing BSODs, they start making abstract art.
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Oddly enough, this began happening to me yesterday.
Oooh, the power of some bug in graphics card drivers. Nice :)
I did something like that, only it was in black and white and ascii, when learning to program in Turbo Pascal on an IBM PCjr.
That makes for a nice wallpaper :)
well, hiding say 128bytes demo’ish effect in your driver can definitely improve the BSOD experience.
http://macdiggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/kernel.jpg
Even Apple’s kernal panic is prettier than Windoze’s BSOD.
(I’ve had 2 of those pretty grey windows on my MacBook)