Help Me! Mac Os X Gets Faster And Faster!

• Restart OS X in single user mode and immediately tell it to reboot for no apparent reason. As soon as the Dock appears, run every program in it. Then, when the spinning wheel of death comes up, pull the plug out of the back of the machine. Put it back in, restart, and do it again. And again. And again.

•Copy a hard drive over your network to a computer (preferably running OS 9, since it's so much slower at file copying) with a smaller hard drive. Wait until OS 9 finally figures out that there won't be enough room. This will probably cause a spinny cursor in OS X. Plug one computer into the other using FireWire Target Disk mode at the same time they're both connected via Ethernet... that should be interesting.

• Play an MP3 file in iTunes and one in Audion at the same time (preferably with Pro Speakers using USB) and continuously unplug and replug them into different USB ports, so the system has to constantly figure out what USB port you're using and pause the song for a split second each time. Keep doing this until the pause becomes one full second, two full seconds, three full seconds (with a spinny cursor by this time).... then pull the speakers out and groove to the built in G4 speaker. If that doesn't frighten you, nothing will.

• Download lots of MP3s at the same time in Internet Explorer over a dial-up connection, and assign one to play in iTunes, one in Audion, one in QuickTime, etc. Start all of them at the same time, when the files have almost no data in them yet. Then keep switching from Audion to QuickTime to iTunes. Try turning on iTunes visuals in a window behind Audion's visuals in a window. Then stop all of them at the same time (or as close as you can make it). This will have the added benefit of making QuickTime take twice as long to open any file from now on.

• Force-quit the finder repeatedly while trying to copy files onto another computer running OS X.
 
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