kernel panic
Jan. 4th, 2007 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7OK, I have to share this because it's funny.
I never shut down my computer. I put it to sleep whenever I'm not using it, so it uses very little power, but I've long had a habit of just never shutting down my computers. I always have tabs open or documents opened in some precise order, things I'm going to get to, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps next week. There are always programs running in the background.
Switching to OS X made a big difference in having that not kill computers. My poor old Win2k box would kind of crash a lot under those circumstances, and I had gotten into the habit of making myself restart it once a week to kind of forestall that, as I sort of lost a lot of work.
But it's sort of the same reason I can't keep a clean house: If I'm not done with something, I can't put it away, or I'm admitting defeat. And yet I never finish anything, so, I never put anything away.
My Macbook crashes now and then, and did just now, so, as usual, I lost a big set of tabs and a carefully-arranged workspace. (Apologies to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tehta and maggiehoneybite, to name two I remember having an intention of posting replies to; I probably won't get back to whichever entries those were but I was probably going to express general good wishes and support and, probably, agreement, and was just waiting for inspiration to strike me and help me come up with a worthwhile and interesting way of saying those things. There were other tabs open too but I don't remember now what they were.)
Anyhow, the funny part's still coming. I didn't forget.
So yesterday I noticed that the power management icon was sort of not acting right. It'd say 96%, while plugged in, for hours, and yet it wasn't charging. So I unplugged it a moment, and it dropped to 95%, and then I plugged it back in, and it stayed at 95% for some more hours. Whatever; it sorted itself out later and was acting normal.
But then a few minutes ago I went to play some music in iTunes. I simply un-paused whatever it was that I'd last been listening to, and it sounded really funny-- it was a dulcimer-and-fiddle thing, so it's hard to tell how it ought to sound, but I thought it didn't seem right. So I picked something else-- John Lee Hooker, from nearby in alphabetical order.
iTunes was playing only about half of each second of music, and then clipping it and moving on to the next. Boom Boom Boom Boom at double speed is hilarious. I Need Some Money was also amusing, if a little garbled. I mean, it's John Lee Hooker. Can you tell whether he's mumbling more than usual? Not really.
In curiosity I went on and chose Pachelbel's Canon in D Major.
Oh Christ, I laughed so hard I almost died. It was the funniest shit ever. If I'd had about six espressos I wouldn't have even noticed; the clipping was seamless at that slow a tempo, and so it just sounded normal, except twice as fast as it could've been.
Of course then the computer had a kernel panic and I had to forcefully reboot it, but I was sort of expecting something drastic so I'd saved everything I had open.
This wouldn't be funny except the computer's fine now. I just had to share that for a moment.
(That's a somewhat-phonetic transcription of it at normal speed without any clipping, btw.)
I never shut down my computer. I put it to sleep whenever I'm not using it, so it uses very little power, but I've long had a habit of just never shutting down my computers. I always have tabs open or documents opened in some precise order, things I'm going to get to, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps next week. There are always programs running in the background.
Switching to OS X made a big difference in having that not kill computers. My poor old Win2k box would kind of crash a lot under those circumstances, and I had gotten into the habit of making myself restart it once a week to kind of forestall that, as I sort of lost a lot of work.
But it's sort of the same reason I can't keep a clean house: If I'm not done with something, I can't put it away, or I'm admitting defeat. And yet I never finish anything, so, I never put anything away.
My Macbook crashes now and then, and did just now, so, as usual, I lost a big set of tabs and a carefully-arranged workspace. (Apologies to
tehta and maggiehoneybite, to name two I remember having an intention of posting replies to; I probably won't get back to whichever entries those were but I was probably going to express general good wishes and support and, probably, agreement, and was just waiting for inspiration to strike me and help me come up with a worthwhile and interesting way of saying those things. There were other tabs open too but I don't remember now what they were.)Anyhow, the funny part's still coming. I didn't forget.
So yesterday I noticed that the power management icon was sort of not acting right. It'd say 96%, while plugged in, for hours, and yet it wasn't charging. So I unplugged it a moment, and it dropped to 95%, and then I plugged it back in, and it stayed at 95% for some more hours. Whatever; it sorted itself out later and was acting normal.
But then a few minutes ago I went to play some music in iTunes. I simply un-paused whatever it was that I'd last been listening to, and it sounded really funny-- it was a dulcimer-and-fiddle thing, so it's hard to tell how it ought to sound, but I thought it didn't seem right. So I picked something else-- John Lee Hooker, from nearby in alphabetical order.
iTunes was playing only about half of each second of music, and then clipping it and moving on to the next. Boom Boom Boom Boom at double speed is hilarious. I Need Some Money was also amusing, if a little garbled. I mean, it's John Lee Hooker. Can you tell whether he's mumbling more than usual? Not really.
In curiosity I went on and chose Pachelbel's Canon in D Major.
Oh Christ, I laughed so hard I almost died. It was the funniest shit ever. If I'd had about six espressos I wouldn't have even noticed; the clipping was seamless at that slow a tempo, and so it just sounded normal, except twice as fast as it could've been.
Of course then the computer had a kernel panic and I had to forcefully reboot it, but I was sort of expecting something drastic so I'd saved everything I had open.
This wouldn't be funny except the computer's fine now. I just had to share that for a moment.
Boom boom boom boom!
Gonna shootche righ' down!
Right o' yo' fee'!
Takeya 'ome wi' me!
Gitcha in ma hou'!
Mmm mm mm mm mm mm!
I luvva seeya wal'
upan down the flo'
wenya talkin to me
dat baby tal'
i ligit li' dat
whenya tal' li' dat
you knog me dea'
righ' off ma fee'!
(That's a somewhat-phonetic transcription of it at normal speed without any clipping, btw.)
