Wearing Macintosh 2
Hm. And here's another one. After writing the last
entry I found a dusty old sheet of paper near my printer. On it were a list of
magic keystrokes to "do stuff" to OSX. It's apple article id 75459 in the apple
knowledge base incidentally. Well, I found one I hadn't heard of before -
Ctrl-Option-Eject is supposed to reboot the
machine!
"Cool" I thought, "This could
be the one true reset keypress which gets me out of all situations - the one
true 'drop the lot and reboot' answer to lockups
etc".
So I pressed
it.
Well, all the apps and Finder went
away.
I was left with my
backdrop.
The mouse still moved the
pointer around.
The CPU fans didn't
speed up so obv. no hard work going
on.
I went downstair and came back
later to find that it was exactly the same - it seemed to have just killed the
window server without actually initiating a reboot. I would love to know how to
see what is actually happening under the hood in these
situation.
Oh well. Another day another
reboot.
And when it came back up it
still didn't see my second CD drive.
Ay
ay ay.
Posted: Mon - June 9, 2003 at 08:59 PM