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    Troubleshooting a hanging mac

    yup - doesn't work... that actually gets it completely hung
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    Troubleshooting a hanging mac

    no, but seriously - how do I intercept a hung Finder? I need an analogue of the win's task manager or generally anything that would give me control (so I can start a console, apps, etc.)
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    Troubleshooting a hanging mac

    it came up with a hanging macbook :(
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    Troubleshooting a hanging mac

    Today my mac started hanging - 3 times so far. The only common thing I've observed between those was that there was some intensive disk activity - first 2 times I was downloading smth, and the last time I started the Disc Verification from the Disk Utility tool. My question is - how do I...
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    Multiple instances of an application

    thanks for the advice :) btw - could you forward me to some online documentation/articles on the kernel architecture, process model, etc. of mac os (or free bsd, as it seems it's more or less the same). and yes, I'm coming from a win developer background and want to grasp the core concepts of...
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    Multiple instances of an application

    I understand the thing with the multiple windows.... It kinda provides the same user experience as spawning multiple instances. However, I guess those are all sharing the same process and (hence) memory. So it's much less isolated and a potential crash in one of the windows would result in...
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    Multiple instances of an application

    Dudes, I have a generic issue here... I recently switched from xp to leopard and almost got used to all the most significant differences. However, I think I just realized it's quite impossible to spawn multiple instances of an application (let's say finder) under mac os. Please someone...
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    Info/book/article needed

    hi all, recently I bought a macbook with leopard.... coming from 15 years in windows world, I'm facing some conceptual issues, as you can imagine :) anyway, I managed to find my way through the problems I encounter. however, I'd really appreciate if someone provides info/book/article that...
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