{"id":872,"date":"2007-08-06T22:18:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T21:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/kernel-panic.htm"},"modified":"2007-08-07T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T15:31:06","slug":"kernel-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/kernel-panic.htm","title":{"rendered":"Kernel panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about how, according to Apple, reason number 1 to get a Mac is because &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/getamac\/\">all the hardware and software just works, and works well together<\/a>&#8220;.  I can&#8217;t be bothered to get into the whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/mac-vs-pc-vs-linux.htm\">Mac vs. [Windows] PC (vs. Linux)<\/a> thing now&#8230; I&#8217;ve written plenty on that subject before, and anyway &#8211; it&#8217;s just a PC &#8211; but no sooner had I just commented to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexcoles.com\/\">Alex<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/useful-utilities-for-digital-photography-using-a-mac.htm\">how a certain podcast presenter is very quick to criticise Windows for it&#8217;s blue screens of death<\/a> (of which I&#8217;ve seen very few in recent years &#8211; and only then because I&#8217;ve done something stupid like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/windows-vista-and-ati-display-drivers.htm\">installing the wrong device driver<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/struggling-with-sata.htm\">removing a hard disk before powering down the computer<\/a>), did I witness my first <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=106227\">OS X kernel panic<\/a> (actually, from looking at \/Library\/Logs\/panic.log, I seems that I had one a few days ago as well, which explains why the Mac had strangely shut itself down whilst I was at work one day last week).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/kernel-panic.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mac OS X kernel panic\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, my point is that Macs don&#8217;t &#8220;just work&#8221;.  They run software, created by humans, that crashes from time to time, just like non-Apple PCs running any other operating system.  Now, if Apple really could create &#8220;the world&#8217;s most advanced operating system&#8221; and it did &#8220;just work&#8221;, I&#8217;d be very impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about how, according to Apple, reason number 1 to get a Mac is because &#8220;all the hardware and software just works, and works well together&#8220;. 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