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If all else fails, grab your iPhone/iPod touch
Authored by: Stormchild on Dec 30, '08 08:32:35AM

I actually use my iPod touch to save my machine when the entire UI manager locks up (in which case there's no way you can open a Terminal window). I log in via SSH with TouchTerm and try to kill the frozen process. When one application after another starts beachballing (usually this is caused by a kernel lock that blocks disk access), this is often the only way to deal with the problem other than forcing it to power down.

You'll have to enable "Remote Login" (*before* you have a problem, obviously!) in the Sharing panel of System Preferences for this to work.

If you happen to have another Mac or any other computer with an SSH client, you can do it that way too.



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