Journal mekkab's Journal: I hate my Mac Mini 22
the system is 6, 7 months old?
512 mb ram, 1.5 ghz processor.
so I hit the enter key, it wakes up from sleep, I type in a url, it says "your fat fingers mistyped, moron" and then I get the spinning beachball of death.
I'm in a hurry, trying to look up a phone number on Der Intertronn.
And that beach ball is still spinning.
So I turn to my right and boot up my win XP box; 512mb ram, 1.1ghz celery-ron processor.
Beach ball is still spinning.
I get the windowz boot up screen.
Beach ball is still spinning.
I select my WinXP account.
Beach ball is still spinning.
I get the desktop.
Beach ball is still spinning.
I double click Mozilla; Which takes FOREVER to load because even though you get the desktop, there's still work being done under the covers.
Beach ball is still spinning.
Mozilla springs to life.
Beach ball is still spinning.
I type in the address.
Beach ball is still spinning.
I get teh website, and have it search for a couple of names.
Beach ball is still spinning.
I forget an extension, so I re-look up a name.
Beach ball is still spinning.
At this point, I disconnected the powercord from the Mac.
I am LIVID. WTF is going on?!
If this were an AIX system, I'd make sure the AIX trace facility had a big ass buffer, I'd load a kernel extension (with a highly favored priority, so I always ran) that registered for the EPOW signal (or whatever signal happens to connote "wake up from sleep"), and on a 1 or 10 second period find out who the top cpu users are and log that, and then once things calmed down I'd stop trace and write it out to a file and find out who's ganking the CPU. (I suspect some stupid swap madness and the memory is thrashing, or I'm hanging on some device driver somewhere)
Perhaps there is an easier way of doing this on a darwin based system?
But yeah, I'm totally pissed.
ugh (Score:2)
force quit is your friend... usually... in things *like* this, its been firefox (which has oodles o' teh buggz0rz) hanging and i just force quit and everything is happy happy.
You are absolutely right (Score:2)
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BTW, my house is on the way to the post office...I can mail it for you.
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You're going to mail your house?
Dude, do it with UPS. Lots cheaper.
Besides, I bet the stamps wouldn't stick to the genuine vinyl siding.
Cheers,
Ethelred
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I agree (Score:1)
So artistic. SCOFF.
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Oh come on!! It has Teh Unix!@!!! Teh Unix! It runs teh vi and teh awk! Teh awk!
awww, go bach to yr ios...
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Not you, me. Fun fun.
toodles.
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Everything Apple makes is crap (Score:1)
512 mb? (Score:1)
Safari or Firefox? (Score:2)
You're right: I too wish there we
Neither; Opera and Camino... (Score:1)
I just need a better view into wtf is going on.
You didn't mention your browser... (Score:2)
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so I'll try ONLY using one browser (Opera for now) and see how it goes.
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like, I need to page down and page up again to redraw the screen properly, or hyperlinks don't work. (are they called "hyperlinks" anymore? Or "hot links?" Perhaps I should just call 'em href's?)
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