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The only "utility" I've ever needed/wanted was Onyx (versiontracker.com). It does a lot of maintenance tasks that the Mac would do automatically if you happen to leave it on at 3am on a Thursday.Aside from that to keep the system clean & in check the only crashes I've experienced are with applications. Mostly with Adobe software and the "Unexpectedly Quit" diaglogue which is directly related to the program, not the OS.The one time I was receiving kernal panics was when I was using a cheap external FW drive w/a disk that was still formatted for Windows (when I made the switch I just threw the old drive in an ext. kit). I backed up & reformatted thet drive in the Mac format they use and have had no problems since.
i always have a copy of applejack installed... its a freebee for starting up your mac in single user mode en do a bunch of terminal stuff (you'd normally have to type in a lot of syntax... )repair your system diskrepair permissionscache cleanupvalidate preferencesremove the swap-filesand you can do that all on user-level too.It helped me countless times already...<a class="user" href="http://applejack.sourceforge.net/">http://applejack.sourceforge.net/</a> dunno if there's a version for intel macs....
I saw a BSOD yesterday in fact. At Frankfurt intl airport, at the entrance of the B terminal. They have some screens running a slide show of what to do before the x-ray scans and security search and one of the five 32" screens had a beautiful BSOD. I see them all the time here in Oslo, as the Aftenposten news board at the central station tends to crash in the morning, displaying a HUGE 4 x 3 meter BSOD for hours. Also, our new (non functioning) subway ticket system crash all the time displaying BSODs and effectively stopping people from traveling legally. If it worked, that is.But I agree, X and XP are both WAY better than OS 9 and 9598ME respectively.
venkmanApr 19, 2006
The only time I see my iMac crash is when I visit certain myspace profiles.
kazakiApr 19, 2006
With Safari? Some people might be putting that special crash code that effects safari in their profile for kicks.
skolesApr 19, 2006
The only "utility" I've ever needed/wanted was Onyx (versiontracker.com). It does a lot of maintenance tasks that the Mac would do automatically if you happen to leave it on at 3am on a Thursday.Aside from that to keep the system clean & in check the only crashes I've experienced are with applications. Mostly with Adobe software and the "Unexpectedly Quit" diaglogue which is directly related to the program, not the OS.The one time I was receiving kernal panics was when I was using a cheap external FW drive w/a disk that was still formatted for Windows (when I made the switch I just threw the old drive in an ext. kit). I backed up & reformatted thet drive in the Mac format they use and have had no problems since.
mutzApr 19, 2006
i always have a copy of applejack installed... its a freebee for starting up your mac in single user mode en do a bunch of terminal stuff (you'd normally have to type in a lot of syntax... )repair your system diskrepair permissionscache cleanupvalidate preferencesremove the swap-filesand you can do that all on user-level too.It helped me countless times already...<a class="user" href="http://applejack.sourceforge.net/">http://applejack.sourceforge.net/</a> dunno if there's a version for intel macs....
pu_zApr 20, 2006
I saw a BSOD yesterday in fact. At Frankfurt intl airport, at the entrance of the B terminal. They have some screens running a slide show of what to do before the x-ray scans and security search and one of the five 32" screens had a beautiful BSOD. I see them all the time here in Oslo, as the Aftenposten news board at the central station tends to crash in the morning, displaying a HUGE 4 x 3 meter BSOD for hours. Also, our new (non functioning) subway ticket system crash all the time displaying BSODs and effectively stopping people from traveling legally. If it worked, that is.But I agree, X and XP are both WAY better than OS 9 and 9598ME respectively.
pu_zApr 20, 2006
You probably have some bad RAM.