TUAW: So the other night, […] we had a problem with Jason Calacanis’s Powerbook G4. It would boot and run through the loading Mac OS X screen very quickly, but at the point where it was supposed to load the login screen, we were greeted by the default blue OS X background and the mouse pointer arrow and nothing else. And it just stayed there.

Long story short, they got the Powerbook back on its feet with five lines in a Unix terminal. With rather intuitive module names like fsck and mv. Mount was also used but that’s OK because it sound vulgar. My point? The OS X box got itself into a state where it was unusable. It had to be bailed out. It needed a bunch of commands that only a tech would know; at least a level well beyond the point and click aspect of things.

Moral of the story? AppleHeads in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones through Windows.
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