Re: beachball

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On Apr 26, 2005, at 11:47, Ann Barcomb chatted the following lines:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Tanja wrote:
>
> [...]
>> I want to do my work! I don't want some stupid happy thingy on my
>> screen, making it impossible for me to actually do anything but wait!
> [...]
>
> I hate that thing too.  These days there is no reason to lock the
> entire computer while you're opening one application.  If I could do
> something on a terminal in the meantime I'd be less pissed off when
> Safari is slow to load.  Of course, when I start seeing the beachball
> for Safari, I know it is time to reboot.
Ah yes that usually works. What's very hateful today is that it started 
right after a reboot, so no, I'm not going to reboot (yet)

> What I hate far more than seeing the beachball for Safari is the
> beachball I see without fail whenever my laptop comes out of sleep.
> I open the top and the display instantly shows the login prompt.  But
> can I type in my password?  No, I have to wait for the damn beachball
> to stop spinning.  It takes at least half a minute.  And why?  Surely
> graphics must be more complex than accepting keyboard input.

Oooh, I get that one a lot on my ibook. It annoys me even more that I 
sometimes wait and it goes right back to sleep cause I didn't press 
anything.

Shaking it didn't help.

--
Tanja

... Women, you can't live with them, and yet they're everywhere.

• Re: beachball Ann Barcomb 10:47 on 26 Apr 2005
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 12:51 on 26 Apr 2005
    • Ann Barcomb 13:00 on 26 Apr 2005
      • too deep to show
  • Tanja 15:19 on 26 Apr 2005
• Juerd 10:51 on 26 Apr 2005
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 12:42 on 26 Apr 2005
• peter (Peter da Silva) 12:15 on 26 Apr 2005
• Michael G Schwern 22:08 on 26 Apr 2005
• Darrell Fuhriman 22:16 on 26 Apr 2005
  • Luke A. Kanies 10:37 on 28 Apr 2005

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