[Ti] disappearing cursor/frozen Al-book

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

At 11:03 -0400 28/4/04, Michael wrote:
>>What leads to me to suspect this operation, is that 
>>"MirrorAgent.app" keeps unexpectedly quitting and wanting to send a 
>>report to Apple....
>>
>>I presume that MirrorAgent is the application that synchrinizes the 
>>iBook and my Powerbook.  There is apparently something that is 
>>causing it to quit today.  Maybe yesterday it was causing the 
>>Powerbook to lock up.  Today everything seems OK so far....
>
>Frankly Trevor, Apple's web services rate a D- in my experience and 
>I will not allow my System to be compromised with any kind of 
>auto-linking.  As you can see, I don't use my mac.com address any 
>more for lists because of constantly getting booted among other 
>things. There servers are the only ones that continuously hang my 
>mail client and/or prompt me for a password (somehow erasing my 
>password from keychain.
>
>I officially stopped using Safari because of load problems as well 
>as severe memory leak... over a gigabyte of swap files go away when 
>quitting Safari after running it for a day and a half.  So it is 
>back to Camino for me. When Safari was first released I did a load 
>test between it and Camino with Safari slightly faster; yesterday 
>Camino loaded same page twice as fast, not to mention that the 
>frequent 10-plus second spinning beachball between page loads 
>probably relegates Safari performance worse than IE.
>
>Sorry, I have gotten off track with my venting, but bottom line is 
>simply these features Apple is building will be nice someday, but 
>are problematic today.

Mike -Thanks for this input.  A helpful perspective on things.

I think you are supporting my contention that it is the iBook sync 
that is the cause of my crashes.

But how do I turn it off??   I just do not know how to do that !!

I will also check how Camino performs for a few days.


Trevor