Re: [SLUG] OT: booting Mac]

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jul 24 2005 - 11:32:57 EDT


On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Robert Snyder wrote:

> Branko wrote:
>
> >Lessons learned (for my sis): "don't force quit while the beach ball is
> >turning" (must be Mac speak).
[...]
> "don't force quit while the beach ball is turning"
>
> Translation, Dont Xkill a program while the cursor is an hourglass.

s/Xkill a program/force a restart without unmounting or flushing caches/,
apparently.

But if a program gets wedged, I don't see any not-bad options. If it's just
taking a long time, yeah, I agree.

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