architectures that prevent freezing

. my memory is foggy on how long I've waited for a freeze;

I now consider a freeze forever if it

prevents me from reaching the force quit menu or keys .

. I may have incompatible or damaged .kexts ?

not sure what causes those;

the problem typically happens when

Apple upgrades the OS;

I suppose because that is testing new parts of my GPU .

. I don't think buggy motherboards or video cards are going away;

I wish Apple would architect things to stay in control .

. thanks for pointing me at .kexts (kernel extensions);

I wasn't aware that any of my apps used .kexts,

but the MacFUSE I just tossed does use them .

. I had soundflower too,

but the Lion upgrade apparently rejected it .

the other apps I'm running that are not Apple's

include FlipForMac WMV (doesn't appear to use a .kext)

and the newest version of Vmware Fusion

3.1.4 (683826).

thank you,

I look forward to developing for mac eventually,

and tn2123.html should help with my bugs;

however,

in the case of the freezes I'm getting,

there are no crash reports;

the software is simply looping,

or the hardware communcations are waiting,

so I'm giving it a hard reset .

. someone mentioned that such a frozen machine

is still responsive to network traffic,

and if you have an iphone, you can use it to

log in and send a shutdown command .

. they never mentioned how to do that,

and since I recently got an ipod touch,

I'm thinking about researching that;

but most of my work is in komodo edit,

and that has automated backups .

komodo edit could never overfill the machine;

because I have it contained in a virtual machine

that has a fixed-size memory allocation .

. I understand Textwrangler is a great, free mac editor;

but, one reason I'm using komodo edit

is that I like to work in a virtual machine;

and one great, free operating system for doing that

is ubuntu linux, but Textwrangler does not support linux .

. for more about virtual macines, see vmware Fusion.

. I do actually have komodo edit on the mac too,

but, I like to run my editor next to my browser,

and, I'm quite convinced that a browser in a virtual machine

is still safer than any browser directly on the mac;

simply because the malware has 2 hoops to jump through

before it can get to the host kernel,

unless it knows of a vmware hole .

. when I first ran VirtualBox I was really excited about

openware that would protect me from browser malware .

. but VirtualBox was not ready;

and, it made me have your exact sentiments:

"( Running an entire Linux [OS] on top of Mac OS X

is a resource hog ...) -- it crawled;

but do I actually have to buy vmware?!

. VMWare, on the other hand,

not only had a lightning fast mouse action,

it also had a working usb connection;

and, it was very stable on Leapard

(can't recall VirtualBox's record on that count).

. I have been following both the VMWare and Apple threads

on this total hard freeze,

and some other people here have claimed

the same thing I did:

a new version of kernel or kext caused the

hidden flaws in the hardware to become obvious .

. some claimed to fix the flaw by

rolling back to Leapard,

others by going back to earlier versions vmware,

and some by replacing the mother board or graphics card .

. multi-threading is notoriously hard,

and today's GCD is massively multi-threaded

by way of the grossly complicated GPU cores .

. my point has been,

a pre-emptive OS is a pretty simple concept;

so, why can't we have one?

. if an OS is really rock solid,

it should never be the case that an app can

cause a hard freeze; an app is just a task,

and the task supervisor should always be

making a routine visit to the user's gui task;

so, vmware or any other app

has nothing to do with it:

in a solid OS, an app's kext should not even be

capable of tying up the thread supervisor .

. what they need to do is replace mach with the L4,

and not bloat the task manager .

(again, I'm no expert, I'm looking for

verification of my hunches 🙂).

> "( your syntax does not meet English grammatical standards.

)

. it's a funny thing about conformity;

as a dual citizen of usa and uk,

I don't know how to spell;

but I see the american point:

call a z-sound a z;

and let's be brief, neighboUr;

can't we just be neighbors?

> "( Rules in English are the same as rules in programming.

)

. if I used capitalization to mark the beginning,

that would change the spelling

and thus the meaning of my program!

why are we doing it this way?

> Apple has moved the jobs page.

your own website got that link right;

that's a very nice site .