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Kernel Panic
Today a thing happened to me, I have not seen for quite a LONG time: The famous kernel panic. While fooling around with vpnc (a vpn client for linux) the system freezed. Only the power button could help it. On the next reboot after the file system checks I got something similar to the picture I posted here.
Some lines told me what I had already suspected: The ndiswrapper caused the issue. For those who don't know: It's a kernel module allowing to use network drivers for windows under linux. I had to use it as a consequence of the lack of existing open source drivers for the new Apple wifi hardware.
Now I am not too depressed, I will see it as a system upgrade. I am already downloading the newest developer version of Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn, Herd 2)... Wish me luck!
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Aw man, that sucks dude. But do you really need a system upgrade? Wouldn't it be enough to simply check for a newer network driver?
Anyway kids, this is a great illustration to what I told you yesterday about the dangerous lives of monolithic kernels. To be fair though, the major upside is: Monolithic kernels are much faster than hybrid ones. Mac OS X sucks as a server for that reason.