beach ball of death
The funny icon you see spin when your Mac is freezing up. Not so cute when you have to do a hard reset
beach ball of death by Benji Bane February 29, 2008
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spinning beach ball of death
The Apple equivalent of the blue screen of death (Windows). The cursor changes from an arrow into the aforementioned symbol
It's appearance signals the imminent freezing of one or more programs. Typically thwarted by force-quitting the program, or in more severe cases, shutting down the computer.
It's appearance signals the imminent freezing of one or more programs. Typically thwarted by force-quitting the program, or in more severe cases, shutting down the computer.
spinning beach ball of death by Sybet January 8, 2007
Spinning Beach Ball of Death
The rainbow-colored beach ball/pinwheel that pops up whenever you force-close an app or your mac is slow.
Spinning Beach Ball of Death by fakename06 December 28, 2018
Beachball of Death
The Mac OS pointer icon of a colorful spinning wheel indicating the program currently under the mouse pointer is no longer responding. Called the beachball of death if the program never recovers or causes the operating system to become so busy (usually due to insufficient memory) that nothing else responds.
Beachball of Death by esmith512 January 8, 2008
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)