Ed <gwbush@whitehouse.gov> wrote:

> > CTRL+ALT+DELETE tends to do the trick. If that doesn't work, unplug it
> > and pull out the battery.
> 
> The three fingered salute brings up a box containing all the programs that
> are running. Terminate the one that is no longer responding and it's usually
> okay. 

Ah.... maybe that's the problem--I hadn't even got as far as launching a
program (unless the Finder-analog counts as a program?). I'd waited the
standard eternity until the box started up, inserted the flash card,
then clicked on *mai compyuuta* and waited the second eternity until it
opened. But only the window frame appeared--no contents and the mouse
cursor was back at the menu bar, frozen.

> If that doesn't work and you get the blue screen of death, then you might
> as well turn it off and do something productive like scrubbing toilets...

did that last month.

> ...or cleaning your daughter's room.

If I had a daughter, she'd better clean her own room.

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