Macs

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http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/11/26/140211.shtml

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[quote=“zx75”] I don’t see how it could be an MS error, perhaps the interface for the app they were using to patch could have been clearer (?) but what they essentially did was overwrite a bunch of OS files on tens of thousands of computers that had no real connection to the OS that was running.

If I were tech support, this is one of those times that I say PIBKAC, a clueless (l)User. Its like taking a hex editor and changing bytes in an executable, and expecting it to still work because the programmers ought to have accounted for it.[/quote]

http://www.daimyo.org/bsod/images/20011204-set1_1_296x442.jpg

heh…