console gibberish?

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squidbite

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Hi all. Long-time Mac user, long-time clueless as to the real inner-workings of the Mac OS. And now, here we are with OS X and a brand new hierarchy.

I was messing around with the console. Imagine my surprise when I opened it andsaw that it was filled with this kind of stuff:

"Wearly I sit here, pain and misery my only companions.
Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed.
Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?
Wearly I sit here, pain and misery my only companions.
Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
Wearly I sit here, pain and misery my only companions.
My capacity for happiness, you could fit it into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.
I'm not getting you down at all, am I?
Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears."

And that's all just a small part of what is filling my console. Mostly there are reiterations of the above many many times over - I think I've covered each sentence in that little snippet.

Am I carrying a virus, or is some programmer at Apple having a good laugh at my (our?) expense?
 
Originally posted by squidbite
Hi all. Long-time Mac user, long-time clueless as to the real inner-workings of the Mac OS. And now, here we are with OS X and a brand new hierarchy.

I was messing around with the console. Imagine my surprise when I opened it andsaw that it was filled with this kind of stuff:

"Wearly I sit here, pain and misery my only companions.
Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed.
Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?
Wearly I sit here, pain and misery my only companions.
Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
Wearly I sit here, pain and misery my only companions.
My capacity for happiness, you could fit it into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.
I'm not getting you down at all, am I?
Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears."

And that's all just a small part of what is filling my console. Mostly there are reiterations of the above many many times over - I think I've covered each sentence in that little snippet.

Am I carrying a virus, or is some programmer at Apple having a good laugh at my (our?) expense?
Click to expand...

LOL! Read So Long, and Thanks for All The Fish by Douglas Adams. Weird! :p
 
Hey, thanks for giving me a link. I thought I would have to nurse a very sick, but very poetic computer. I do have a Logitech mouse (and recently installed the OS X driver).

Question: will all of this slow down my computer? I am having major problems with IE 5.2.1 and Internet Connect in general, and am wondering if this could be the reason...?
 
I don't think it slows down your computer by any appreciable amount.

And they've removed it in the latest beta of their drivers. Just some programmer having a bit of fun, I guess.
 
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