Typing These 8 Characters Will Crash Almost Any App On Your Mountain Lion Mac 425
An anonymous reader writes "All software has bugs, but this one is a particularly odd one. If you type "File:///" (no quotes) into almost any app on your Mac, it will crash. The discovery was made recently and a bug report was posted to Open Radar. First off, it’s worth noting that the bug only appears to be present in OS X Mountain Lion and is not reproducible in Lion or Snow Leopard. That’s not exactly good news given that this is the latest release of Apple’s operating system, which an increasing number of Mac users are switching to. ... A closer look shows the bug is inside Data Detectors, a feature that lets apps recognize dates, locations, and contact data, making it easy for you to save this information in your address book and calendar."
printf (Score:2, Funny)
Apple's response (Score:5, Funny)
You're doing it wrong.
no big deal.
Steve
BRB (Score:5, Funny)
BRB, heading down to the Apple Store...
Powerpoint summary of TFS (Score:5, Funny)
- In the latest version.
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Re:printf (Score:5, Funny)
Here speaketh the Apple fan. No matter what... it's a good thing.
Re:Apple's response (Score:5, Funny)
Steve is in the iCloud now. Someone tried turning him off and then back on again. In an appeal to hipsters, he's gone underground to sell more macs. He is permanently 404. There is no way he could have had anything to say about this. There is no app for that. Get it? :P
Even crashes the crash reporter! (Score:5, Funny)
I tried this in Safari on Lion. Capital F required, but indeed just "File:/// " crashes it.
Then you get a pop-up asking if you want to report the problem to Apple? Sure.
But then that crashes with a pop-up reporting that crash reporter has crashed. Bonus!
WTF (Score:2, Funny)
Ok, I didn't believe this, I thought it might be a hoax so I wanted to try this and typed it into a file in the TextEdit.app, and it crashed the TextEdit.app completely!!!!! I had a 10 page paper that I was writing in there opened and it hadn't failed yet. The paper is due tomorrow!! is there a way to sue apple for damages over this?!!?!!!!??
Re:You're doing it wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe he's using a Mac. The first two times he tried that message, Safari crashed.
it's an old joke (Score:4, Funny)
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this... Can you help me?"
"Sure, don't to that."
I'm going to give some free advice to users of Apple's OSX Mountain Lion: Don't do that.
Re:Apple's response (Score:4, Funny)
Re:printf (Score:5, Funny)
I like C, but the problem is that most programmers cause chaos when they write it. C was always meant as a language that people who like assembler will like and use and be more productive. It was not meant as a language that today's script monkeys should use.
Also Objective C was designed according to the prinicples of Objectivism - i.e. the code of the looters and moochers would crash and burn and bankrupt their companies whereas the code of Great Men would navigate the formidable obstacles of pointers and demonstrate their status as Nietzschean Ubermenschen and be rewarded with tonnes of cash and Patricia Neal, so this is not really surprising.