[Am-info] [OT] I've gone over to the brightly colored side.

[Eric Bennett]

Mitch Stone wrote:

> I've seen it become temporarily unresponsive when an application takes a
> dive, but generally cmd-opt-esc brings up the force quit dialog box and
> the OS kills it gracefully.

I have two network cards so I can use IP masquerading to share my broadband
connection with my laptop, and with 10.0.x after I had started natd, the
system would *always* kernel panic when I tried to restart or shut down. 
10.1 fixed that.  Yesterday, for no apparent reason, the networking died
completely.  Couldn't even "ping localhost".  I went down to single user
mode and brought it back up, and it hung trying to start the networking, so
I aborted that with control-C and it started up the rest of the way.  Then
I could ping localhost but nothing else, so I had to reboot completely to
get my networking back.

At work, only one machine is running 10, and it often gets into a state
where Classic programs crash almost immediately after starting until OS X
itself is restarted.

> Have you found an e-mail client you like? Mail.app just isn't going to
> cut it.

I was using Eudora 4 in Classic until a week or two ago.  Now I am using
the OS X Eudora 5 beta.  After a few days of use it told me my mailboxes
were corrupted, but at the same time all my OS X apps started crashing and
I couldn't load anything new until I restarted.  I'm not sure if Eudora's
behavior was cause or effect.  It hasn't happened again.

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Eric Bennett ( ericb@pobox.com ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )