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Tracking the BSOD has become such an obsession that online resources and photo directories exist for the sole purpose of documenting these oddly mesmerizing disasters. If you haven't seen one yet, then stay on the lookout - you're sure to run into one eventually, and when you do, be sure to capture the moment forever with your digital camera or camera phone so that you can share it with your children and grandchildren.

You may be asking yourself, why is there so much hubbub over an error message? Well, for one thing, the structure of the message is just completely ridiculous, and it's just asking to be talked about. Instead of nicely and understandably informing the user that a problem has occurred, Microsoft used the most shocking color of blue that they could find, filled the screen with it, and then dumped some cryptic text in an unattractive font onto it. The mere appearance of the BSOD is enough to make the frustration experienced by the error even more severe. It's gotten a little bit better over the years, but it's still there. Could you imagine being one of the people that helped to implement the Blue Screen of Death into Windows (although, back then, it was probably internally referred to as the Happy Fun Time Screen of Giggles)? Talk about being remembered for your work...

Apple users have a bad habit of ragging on Windows users about these fatal OS errors, and they need to be careful about what they say, especially since their beloved OS is open to crashes just like any other. If they think they are using a perfect OS, then they are wrong, and they will realize it soon enough.

Have you ever heard of or experienced the kernel panic screen in OS X? If not, the kernel panic screen is basically the OS X version of the BSOD in Windows, although, in typical Apple style, recent versions are much more attractive and helpful than those that are offered up from the competition. To top it all off, the message is even displayed in multiple languages.

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