It was the spinning ball of death. I started backing up and uninstalling some stuff and the system seems more stable again. However events have taken their toll as the external drive which had my development VMs on it became corrupted beyond Mac O/S tools capability to repair. I don't know that I have lost anything important. My time machine backups were lost on the same drive. My source code is periodically checked in to my own private subversion server so the important stuff is protected that way. At worsed I may have lost a bit of native development on the Windows Service I have been developing for keeping track of logins and logouts but I think that code was all checked in up to date so if anything was lost it probably wasn't much. There is still the time involved in creating the VMs again. I think part of the trouble is that I got an eSATA Express card to go in my Mac Book Pro so that I would have the fastest possible speed connection to the external hard drives for the benefit of the VMs performance. I don't think that the drivers are 100% stable but seemed to work fine for me until recently when Time Machine would lock up every time it tried to do a backup (but even before it was at the point of writing to the drive).
On Jan 21, 9:26 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, BB is Beach Ball. That makes sense. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
