Alerting Alert

posted on july 14, 2004, tag: software

Even Apple makes mistakes. Every now and then I'll come across a small bug in OS X that makes me laugh (or pisses me off), and this morning when shutting down my G5 before work I noticed a funny alert sheet.

If you have more than one user logged in (via fast user switching) and attempt to shut down, you're prompted for an administrative username and password. Normally I just enter this and hit shutdown without thinking, but this morning I accidentally clicked the shutdown button before entering any text and received the following alert sheet:

This was especially funny to me because it reminded me of my first few days creating a Cocoa app, when I would use alert sheets to check if things were working. In this case, the Finder icon hasn't been placed, so you see the lovely default app icon, and they've taken great care to properly provide a good error message, "Alert." Made me laugh.

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