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Apple's not so subtle PC dig

As most people know, I'm fairly computer and operating system agnostic, I generally have three systems running, consisting of a Mac, a PC running Linux and a laptop running some version of Windows.

The screenshot pictured here is from my Mac connecting to an SMB share on my home server. Notice the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) pictured. Even more ironic is that this is actually my Ubuntu Linux machine, not an actual Windows box so BSOD will never actually happen.

You just get the occasional kernel panics (ok, ok...rarely) or like what happened to me last week, a corrupted initramfs image via Update Manager in Ubuntu 10.10. Such are the hazards of playing with pre-released software...
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