“Save Our Ship!” er… MacBook Air
Faithful Macenstein reader shoe came across a MacBook Air support document in Apple’s knowledgebase (HT1221) that has to be one of the all time best inside engineering jokes of all time. Apparently when the MacBook Air encounters a severe problem during boot, it will emit 9 beeps before hanging: “3 short, 3 long, 3 short.” In other words, S-O-S, in Morse code.
While it’s always nice to see Apple’s engineers have a sense of humor, odds are if your MBA wont boot you will likely be making 10 beeps yourself… “3 short, 4 short, 2 short, 1 long.”
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June 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
sadly there is no standard representation for the exclamation sign.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:07 am
It’s not uncommon for geeky engineers to beep things in Morse… on many phones, the default alert for text messages is the letters “S - M - S”. (Dit-dit-dit, dah-dah, dit-dit-dit, to us in-the-know types.)