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[iMav]

^^It gives a BSOD even on Ubuntu

 

[coolmel]

i ll try n get a copy of it right away.. these imagine people gave me the toast 8.

 

[narangz]

Windows users, check out this link. I dare you to click on “click here” without reading the post. 8)

LOL Flash in full screen

 

[SunnyChahal]

OS X hanged while I was surfing on Safari!I had to restart.Any idea what might have been the reason?
Has anyone here experienced this sort of problem?

 

[narangz]

^^ LOL! Welcome to the Mac world

On a non-serious note- The Windows ghost is following you for ditching it

 

[SunnyChahal]

^^
What LOL?I haven't ditched windows yet.I still play games on my PC.I Don't know why but.......IT HANGED!with some zig-zag lines on Safari browser!It's working fine now but I want to know why the mighty OS X hanged?

 

[narangz]

I guess it's something to do with graphics. Updated safari?

LOL coz it was nice to know that Mac hangs too It might not sound nice to you

 

[goobimama]

If the problem was with the graphics then it might be a hardware issue. Updates are all done? Also, the ctrl Alt del for mac is command option esc. Do a force quit from there if an app hangs.

 

[aryayush]

OS X hanged while I was surfing on Safari!

No, I’m pretty sure it didn’t. Either it was just Safari that wasn’t responding—it has a tendency to do that—or the OS itself. If it was the latter case, and I highly doubt that, then waiting for a couple of minutes would have sorted it out. I guess you’re used to the theory that if everything stops working, a restart is the only solution, but that’s not how it works in the Mac world. A kernel panic is pretty much the only thing that warrants a restart on Mac OS X, and if and when that happens, you’ll know it has.

The most likely scenario, however, is that Safari stopped responding, in which case, all you had to do was right click on its icon in the Dock and hit Force Quit. Alternatively, you could press Cmd-Opt-Esc like Milind said, and Force Quit any non-responsive application from there.

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One of the many advantages of an unlimited connection is that I can download a song whenever I want. So if I run across a good song on some TV show, all I have to do is look it up on iTunes and it’s purchased and downloaded in a couple of minutes.

 

[iMav]

Welcome to the UL world, my only condition for a net connection is that it should be an uncapped one.

 

[dinesh72]

*www.tuaw.com/2008/06/03/apple-posts-leopard-security-configuration-guide/

 

[aryayush]

Welcome to the UL world, my only condition for a net connection is that it should be an uncapped one.

I’m still only getting used to it though. Every time I run across a YouTube link, I instinctively shy away from it, and then I realise that I no longer have to do that. It’s a wonderful feeling.

(I was on the 256Kbps UL bandwagon too before I switched to the 2Mbps one a year ago.)

 

[goobimama]

You guys are idiots. While this is doesn't exactly have anything to do with Apple, I'll share my thoughts nonetheless (like I have ever cared about spamming the forum )

I have not held myself back from downloading a song in the middle of the day, neither have I kept from watching youtube videos. The 2Mbps connection with 5GB per month is more than sufficient for heavy surfing with lots of youtube watching and other such stuff. The only thing required for this, is to restart the modem at 2:05 am, and then restart it again before 8:00 a.m. The restarting is important. No amount of pausing your download, or shutting down the PC is going to stop BSNL from carrying over that usage over into the charged hours.

 

[iMav]

Na, I can't live with a 5GB cap, I won't be able to download anything if I download a copy of patched Leopard.

 

[goobimama]

Well hey, you can download twice as much from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. on a 2mbps than you can during the whole day on a 256kbps.

 

[dinesh72]

Is there anything to automate this process of restarting the modem?

 

[preshit.net]

Yes, there is.

 

[dinesh72]

What is it?

 

[preshit.net]

Well, it's an AppleScript via telnet to reboot your router. I would first need to know which router you have, to see if it is telnet compatible.

 

[aryayush]

Well hey, you can download twice as much from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. on a 2mbps than you can during the whole day on a 256kbps.

I know and agree with both your posts. However, when you’re on a capped connection (and mine was the same as yours), you’re always watching your back, constantly on the alert. If you have a Wi-Fi setup, which almost all of us seem to have, you just cannot enjoy the freedom that Wi-Fi promises. And if, for some reason, something goes wrong with your nightly setup one one occasion, you’ve already used around one gigabyte or more in one day. It might work for human owls like you, but for normal people, it’s just too much of a hassle.

And, in any case, even 5GB is not sufficient for super heavy surfers like myself. You’re not even close to me in the department.

I also know that I’m downloading less per day on my 512Kbps unlimited connection (not 256Kbps though) than I did on the 2Mbps limited one, but the overall Internet experience is much better. Plus, I have such a huge and constantly increasing backlog of unwatched content anyway, it doesn’t really matter if I get more content slower than I was doing so before. It’s a win-win situation on my end, and I get to listen to last.fm (which you just cannot do, no matter how much monthly bandwidth you are restricted to).

And there’s nothing wrong with this line of discussion, IMHO. It’s about using the Internet, something Mac users have a 7.5% market share of.