On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:32 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Joshua Juran wrote:
Remember waiting several minutes for the Finder to figure out that
the AppleShare server is GONE, and it's NOT coming back? Well,
lose a Bluetooth peer and you get to wait FOREVER.
Or until you reboot.
That's funny because just an hour ago I woke my laptop up from
sleep and made the horrible mistake of unmounting an sshfs volume
that was tunneled through a now defunct ssh tunnel. Beachball of
death.
In Mac OS 9 you'd get a wristwatch. In black and white only. If you
were lucky, it was animated. Fortunately, we've advanced beyond such
primitive systems.
Everything locked up except for some inexplicable reason I could
still move windows around.
Cocoa applications get that 'for free'.
Josh
