mac mini snow crash

I'm a long time Windows user, who got a Mac Mini a few months ago. No big deal, mostly. But I'd never seen this before -- a real, honest-to-god "snow crash." That is, the only thing my computer is showing is TV-like snow. Say... Macs *are* different. Who knew Neal Stephenson wasn't kidding around?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• mac mini
• snow crash
• real snow crash
• os x
• just works my ass
• minimax
• mac

[EmoticonMayhem]

It could be an issue with the monitor, have you tried plugging something else into the monitor through the same connection?

[hbobrien]

@EmoticonMayhem : Yup. Many different things, all work fine. And the mac mini snow crashes with different monitors. So, that's not the variable.

[Tnoy34rt]

This guy is clearly an idiot...

[hbobrien]

@Tnoy34rt : OK, I'll bite - How so? Are you saying I faked the video? Or that you've seen Macs do this so often I shouldn't be surprised? Or what?

[IAmNotAFunguy]

Your computer has an identity crisis and thinks it's a TV! But if you could find some way to hook up an antenna to it it may not be totally useless.

[fluffypinkandmoist]

I love that we have people who have no idea what "snow" is and have to be directed to a scene in the movie "Poltergeist" to understand it. I'm old (44) and I remember the snow between channels when we turned the knob on the TV. How much things have changed in so little time...

[hbobrien]

@nintenandryan : "If anytime a PC crash, and people a make video, it would be 70% of youtube content."

I suspect we have different sample sizes. I've worked in a datacenter with 120,000 servers -- ~80K Windows, 40K Unix. The Unix boxes crashed far more often than 1/3 of the total time, which means they're disproportionally less stable than Windows. {shrug}

I mean, I can tell you anecdotally that my 3 PCs crash less often combined than my 1 Mac, but that's not as good a sample as 80K v 40K.

[hbobrien]

@crazypenny94 : "how is that a snowcrash? does it show snowflakes are something?"

Ah. No, what happens is, the whole screen is full of the kind of flickering, or static, that old TVs did. That was called, "snow." Google "tv snow," and you'll see some examples. You can also see it in the movie "Poltergeist."

Then, Neal Stephenson wrote a novel called "Snow Crash," because he'd seen Macintoshes in the mid-1990s do something similar -- the computer crashes, and all you see is "snow."

[hbobrien]

@crazypenny94 : "what kind of sttupid person believes there is a snow crash?"

Umm... The kind of stupid person who made a live video of a snow crash happening, and whose Mac has a snow crash every 4-6 weeks or so?

Why are you saying I'm stupid to believe Mac snow crashes happen, when I've seen snow crashes with my own eyes, and have provided you with a video of a snow crash?