The Big Think

Had another kernel panic just now. I had selected a .aiff file in the finder (column view) and clicked on “play” in the far right column. Crash. Seems to be something relating to some other program. The commonality in all my crashes has been that Mail and Safari are both open when the panic happens. Of course, as I pretty much just use OS X for Mail and web-browsing, that’s 100% of the time. Giles also had the idea that it might be related to the Western Digital drive that I installed shortly after I got the G4. WD drives are notoriously bad. I’ve had one fail and G. has had several. Broke my cardinal rule: don’t buy cheap stuff.

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take
orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze
a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal,
fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.”
Robert A. Heinlein

NASA’s Spirit rover has had a successful brain surgery (CF-memory card reformat). It is now