At least it was for a good cause.
Has anyone else tried the new Open Source NTFS driver for OS X?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/
I was able to access my external firewire 250GBx2 drives but while playing some of the HDTV .ts streams in Videolan I finally saw a crash of my machine.

Fortunately, I just held that power button for a few seconds, restarted, and all was well. It was a lot prettier than the old Finder Bomb messages. The screen redrew and presented a message of what happened and what I could do to restart all while maintaining the background imagery.
Is anyone having good success with this NTFS driver?