Silly

[crschmidt]

Terminal.app is acting up. (Can't alt-tab to it, just get a beachball.) So I go to kill it in the dock. That doesn't work, so my next thought is "Hey, I'll just switch to a term and "killall Terminal"".

right. Because typing in a term doesn't require a working terminal... of course.

(Hey, it finally force quit. yay.)

Comments

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

I usually don't run into problems that can't just be solved using force quit -- this one did eventually go away, it just took a while.

All my machines are set to allow SSH from anywhere, but that would have involved getting up and getting to another computer, although I'm sure my thought process would have started with "Well, I can just open aterm and ssh over to zeus..." or something similar.

Last resort, I usually just go to powerdown on the powerbook rather than trying to bother with SSH and so on.

[catyak]

I have several machines on a KVM switch so it's trivial to switch between them. The Linux box that I use for most things has a bunch of terminals ssh'ed to the other Linux boxes as standard so I can easily go do things on the other machines. They've got X forwarding enabled so they'll all pop up windows on the same machine if needed.

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