What is a reasonable time before it loads up??? Maybe there is way to do
this on a Tower but it doesn't work on an iBook very well, I'd rather run
Jaguar and not be able to do as much... That's why I bought the 15in 1ghz
Titanium G4 Pwoerbook!!! I think it's inevitable we all will have to upgrade
to a newer computer sooner or later... CoolKat
-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
>Sent: Sep 14, 2009 12:15 PM
>To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
>Subject: Re: [G3-5]Re: OSX10.4 on G3
>
>
>
>On Sep 13, 2009, at 2:28 PM, MaGioZal wrote:
>
>>
>> The problem of the "spinning beach ball" doesn't occur with 10.4
>> itself, but
>> with the applications that run over it.
>
>which are waiting for "disk i/o, paging memory, or network data."
>
>The SPOD is the Mac's way of telling you "I haven't crashed, but this
>process is taking a lot longer than I expected, and I can't do
>anything until I get what I asked for, so I'm letting you know about
>it."
>
>It's the equivalent of the old Mac tumbling hourglass.
>
>If it turns out it's waiting for something that will never happen,
>like data off of a closed network connection or you have a deadlock on
>a resource, and there's no timeout period on the request, then it's as
>good as a crash, because all you can do is force-quit the app.
>
>--
>Bruce Johnson
>University of Arizona
>College of Pharmacy
>Information Technology Group
>
>Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
>
>
>
>>
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