Spiders From Death Mac OS

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2. Spiders From Death Mac Os 11

The spinning pinwheel is a variation of the mouse pointer arrow, used in Apple's macOS to indicate that an application is busy.^[1]

Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refers to it as the spinning wait cursor,^[2] but it is also known by other names, including the spinning beach ball^[3], the spinning wheel of death^[4], the spinning beach ball of death,^[5] or the ferris wheel of death.

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History[edit]

1. Mac OS X 10.2/Jaguar gave the cursor a glossy rounded 'gumdrop' look in keeping with other OS X interface elements. In OS X 10.10, the entire pinwheel rotates (previously only the overlaying translucent layer moved). With OS X 10.11 El Capitan the spinning wait-cursor's design was updated. It now has less shadowing and has brighter, more solid.
2. Spider silk starts out in the silk glands as a watery gel of long protein chains, which is funnelled down a gradually tapering tube. As the tube narrows, coatings are applied to the mixture (to provide stickiness and water resistance, for example) before it emerges through tiny spigots (devices that control the flow of liquid) on the spider's spinnerets.

Deaths from brown recluse spider bites are rare. Most brown recluse spiders, which are also called violin spiders, live in the western and southern United States. Most are about 7 mm (0.25 inch) and have a leg span of about 2.5 cm (1 inch).

A wristwatch was the first wait cursor in early versions of the classic Mac OS. Apple's HyperCard first popularized animated cursors, including a black-and-white spinning quartered circle resembling a beach ball. The beach-ball cursor was also adopted to indicate running script code in the HyperTalk-like AppleScript. The cursors could be advanced by repeated HyperTalk invocations of 'set cursor to busy'.

Wait cursors are activated by applications performing lengthy operations. Some versions of the Apple Installer used an animated 'counting hand' cursor. Other applications provided their own theme-appropriate custom cursors, such as a revolving Yin Yang symbol, Fetch's running dog, Retrospect's spinning tape, and Pro Tools' tapping fingers. That one ghost on the tabletop mac os. Apple provided standard interfaces for animating cursors: originally the Cursor Utilities (SpinCursor, RotateCursor)^[6] and, in Mac OS 8 and later, the Appearance Manager (SetAnimatedThemeCursor).^[7]

From NeXTStep to Mac OS X[edit]

NeXTStep 1.0 used a monochrome icon resembling a spinning magneto-optical disk.^[a] Some NeXT computers included an optical drive which was often slower than a magnetic hard drive and so was a common reason for the wait cursor to appear.

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When color support was added in NeXTStep 2.0, color versions of all icons were added. The wait cursor was updated to reflect the bright rainbow surface of these removable disks, and that icon remained even when later machines began using hard disk drives as primary storage. Contemporary CD Rom drives were even slower (at 1x, 150 kbit/s).^[b]

With the arrival of Mac OS X the wait cursor was often called the 'spinning beach ball' in the press,^[8] presumably by authors not knowing its NeXT history or relating it to the hypercard wait cursor.

The two-dimensional appearance was kept essentially unchanged^[c] from NeXT to Rhapsody/Mac OS X Server 1.0 which otherwise had a user interface design resembling Mac OS 8/Platinum theme, and through Mac OS X 10.0/Cheetah and Mac OS X 10.1/Puma, which introduced the Aqua user interface theme.

Mac OS X 10.2/Jaguar gave the cursor a glossy rounded 'gumdrop' look in keeping with other OS X interface elements.^[9]In OS X 10.10, the entire pinwheel rotates (previously only the overlaying translucent layer moved).With OS X 10.11 El Capitan the spinning wait-cursor's design was updated. It now has less shadowing and has brighter, more solid colors to better match the design of the user interface. The colors also turn with the spinning, not just the texture.

System usage[edit]

In single-tasking operating systems like the original Macintosh operating system, the wait cursor might indicate that the computer was completely unresponsive to user input, or just indicate that response may temporarily be slower than usual due to disk access. This changed in multitasking operating systems such as System Software 5, where it is usually possible to switch to another application and continue to work there. Individual applications could also choose to display the wait cursor during long operations (and these were often able to be cancelled with a keyboard command).

After the transition to Mac OS X (macOS), Apple narrowed the wait cursor meaning. The display of the wait cursor is now controlled only by the operating system, not by the application. This could indicate that the application was in an infinite loop, or just performing a lengthy operation and ignoring events. Each application has an event queue that receives events from the operating system (for example, key presses and mouse button clicks); and if an application takes longer than 2 seconds^[10] to process the events in its event queue (regardless of the cause), the operating system displays the wait cursor whenever the cursor hovers over that application's windows.

This is meant to indicate that the application is temporarily unresponsive, a state from which the application should recover. It also may indicate that all or part of the application has entered an unrecoverable state or an infinite loop. During this time the user may be prevented from closing, resizing, or even minimizing the windows of the affected application (although moving the window is still possible in OS X, as well as previously hidden parts of the window being usually redrawn, even when the application is otherwise unresponsive). While one application is unresponsive, typically other applications are usable. File system and network delays are another common cause.

Guidelines, tools and methods for developers[edit]

By default, events (and any actions they initiate) are processed sequentially, which works well when each event involves a trivial amount of processing, the spinning wait cursor appearing until the operation is complete. If processing takes long, the application will appear unresponsive. Developers may prevent this by using separate threads for lengthy processing, allowing the application's main thread to continue responding to external events. However, this greatly increases the application complexity. Another approach is to divide the work into smaller packets and use NSRunLoop or Grand Central Dispatch.

• Bugs in applications can cause them to stop responding to events; for instance, an infinite loop or a deadlock. Applications thus afflicted rarely recover.
• Problems with the virtual memory system—such as slow paging caused by a spun-down hard disk or disk read-errors—will cause the wait cursor to appear across multiple applications, until the hard disk and virtual memory system recover.

Instruments is an application that comes with the Mac OS X Developer Tools. Along with its other functions, it allows the user to monitor and sample applications that are either not responding or performing a lengthy operation. Each time an application does not respond and the spinning wait cursor is activated, Instruments can sample the process to determine which code is causing the application to stop responding. With this information, the developer can rewrite code to avoid the cursor being activated.

Apple's guidelines suggest that developers try to avoid invoking the spinning wait cursor, and suggest other user interface indicators, such as an asynchronous progress indicator.

Alternate names[edit]

The spinning wait cursor is commonly referred to as the (Spinning) x (of Death/Doom).^[d] The most common words or phrases x can be replaced with include:

• Disk
• (Beach) Ball^[11][12]
• (Rainbow) wheel
• Pinwheel
• Pizza^[e]
• Pie
• Marble
• Lollipop

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^NeXT Optical Discs, Photo of the underside, showing the rainbow effect depicted on the icon (a then new type of media that was built into the early NeXT Cubes.)
2. ^often an external AppleCD drive was used
3. ^not a single bit was changed
4. ^named after the Blue Screen of Death
5. ^frequently encountered across Mac users forums as The SPOD

References[edit]

1. ^'Mini-Tutorial: The dreaded spinning pinwheel; Avoiding unresponsiveness/slow-downs in Mac OS X'. CNet. 10 March 2005. Retrieved 16 July 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
2. ^'macOS Human Interface Guidelines: Pointers'. developer.apple.com. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
3. ^'Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball'. Macworld. 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
4. ^'How to Fix a Spinning Wheel of Death on Mac'. MacPaw. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
5. ^'Frozen: How to Force Quit an OS X App Showing a Spinning Beachball of Death – The Mac Observer'. www.macobserver.com. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
6. ^'Using the Cursor Utilities (IM: Im)'. Developer.apple.com. Retrieved 2010-04-30.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
7. ^'SetAnimatedThemeCursor'. Developer.apple.com. Retrieved 2010-04-30.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^Macworld 2002-04-01
9. ^Ars Technica Jaguar review: 'The dreading 'spinning rainbow disc' has an all new look in Jaguar'
10. ^'WWDC 2012 – Session 709 – What's New in the File System'(PDF). Apple. Retrieved 2018-05-23. Applications SPOD if they don't service the event loop for two secondsCS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
11. ^Swain, Gregory E. (28 May 2010). 'Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball'. ((MacWorld)). Retrieved 16 July 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
12. ^Todd, Charlie (9 March 2012). 'Spinning Beach Ball of Death'. ((Improv Everywhere)). Retrieved 16 July 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

• Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Standard Cursors from Apple's website.
• Perceived Responsiveness: Avoid the Spinning Cursor from Apple's website.
• Troubleshooting the 'Spinning Beach Ball of Death' Excerpt from 'Troubleshooting Mac OS X' book where there are some information on how to deal with Spinning Wait Cursor problems.

What's just about everyone's worst nightmares, whether out camping in the desert or even about the house?

Yep, GIANT SPIDERS!

And I'm not talking about those little eight-legged creepy crawlies that we happen upon everyday while going about our business. No, I'm talking about spiders the size of small dogs and with the ability to bring down prey much larger than some piddly insect – we're talking large animals and even … shudder … human beings!

Spider Fact #1 – On any given day you're only 6 feet away from some type of spider

Currently, the largest spider recognized by science is the Goliath Bird-Eater of South America (how's that for a name?) and it is said to have a leg span of up to eleven inches. And while it is certainly a giant spider by anyone's yardstick, there remains tales and stories of even larger spiders being seen out in the Mojave Desert.

1. ^NeXT Optical Discs, Photo of the underside, showing the rainbow effect depicted on the icon (a then new type of media that was built into the early NeXT Cubes.)
2. ^often an external AppleCD drive was used
3. ^not a single bit was changed
4. ^named after the Blue Screen of Death
5. ^frequently encountered across Mac users forums as The SPOD

References[edit]

1. ^'Mini-Tutorial: The dreaded spinning pinwheel; Avoiding unresponsiveness/slow-downs in Mac OS X'. CNet. 10 March 2005. Retrieved 16 July 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
2. ^'macOS Human Interface Guidelines: Pointers'. developer.apple.com. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
3. ^'Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball'. Macworld. 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
4. ^'How to Fix a Spinning Wheel of Death on Mac'. MacPaw. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
5. ^'Frozen: How to Force Quit an OS X App Showing a Spinning Beachball of Death – The Mac Observer'. www.macobserver.com. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
6. ^'Using the Cursor Utilities (IM: Im)'. Developer.apple.com. Retrieved 2010-04-30.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
7. ^'SetAnimatedThemeCursor'. Developer.apple.com. Retrieved 2010-04-30.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^Macworld 2002-04-01
9. ^Ars Technica Jaguar review: 'The dreading 'spinning rainbow disc' has an all new look in Jaguar'
10. ^'WWDC 2012 – Session 709 – What's New in the File System'(PDF). Apple. Retrieved 2018-05-23. Applications SPOD if they don't service the event loop for two secondsCS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
11. ^Swain, Gregory E. (28 May 2010). 'Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball'. ((MacWorld)). Retrieved 16 July 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
12. ^Todd, Charlie (9 March 2012). 'Spinning Beach Ball of Death'. ((Improv Everywhere)). Retrieved 16 July 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

• Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Standard Cursors from Apple's website.
• Perceived Responsiveness: Avoid the Spinning Cursor from Apple's website.
• Troubleshooting the 'Spinning Beach Ball of Death' Excerpt from 'Troubleshooting Mac OS X' book where there are some information on how to deal with Spinning Wait Cursor problems.

What's just about everyone's worst nightmares, whether out camping in the desert or even about the house?

Yep, GIANT SPIDERS!

And I'm not talking about those little eight-legged creepy crawlies that we happen upon everyday while going about our business. No, I'm talking about spiders the size of small dogs and with the ability to bring down prey much larger than some piddly insect – we're talking large animals and even … shudder … human beings!

Spider Fact #1 – On any given day you're only 6 feet away from some type of spider

Currently, the largest spider recognized by science is the Goliath Bird-Eater of South America (how's that for a name?) and it is said to have a leg span of up to eleven inches. And while it is certainly a giant spider by anyone's yardstick, there remains tales and stories of even larger spiders being seen out in the Mojave Desert.

Now everyone has seen pictures of hairy desert tarantulas (and if you're like me, devoured all those great cheapo-yet-creepy 1950's movies about giant tarantulas running rampant across the countryside scaring teenagers) but truth be told, they are fairly slow and docile animals that just want to be left alone as they go about their business.

Spider Fact #2 – Some restaurants in Asia serve fried tarantula as a side dish

But there HAVE been reports and rumors of much bigger spiders being encountered out in the Mojave Desert – if you've read my book or seen my YouTube Channel you know I've done stories on both giant spiders in the Mojave and the legend of giant camel spider attacks that you might find interesting.

SO could there be something that big lurking out there ready to dine on you or your loved ones should you be so lucky as to be camping in the desert? Well, I personally have seen tarantulas as big as a small dinner plate (and even got some shaky phone video of the beastie as seen in my episode linked above) but so far no one has actually brought back proof of any giant spiders that could be scientifically validated.

But that doesn't mean people aren't still reporting seeing giant spiders in the desert.

Spider Fact #3 – Spiders do not normally feed on humans and typically their bites only occur as a defense mechanism

If you read through some of the comments on my YouTube channel on the giant spider episodes, you'll see some people report seeing or encountering a larger-than-life spider on several occasions.

One man said while he was in the army and working as a transport driver, he happened to be delivering some supplies to an isolated outpost in the Mojave when he came across a giant spider crossing the road. He said it was big, black and hairy and when the heavy truck he was driving hit the animal (he was moving too fast to swerve and to be honest, didn't really feel like doing so) the front wheels actually bounced and gave the entire truck a jolt as they passed over the monster's body. He said he and his commanding officer, who was in the truck beside him, looked at each other and decided they were NOT going to stop. Pity really, we might just have had the chance to actually get a specimen of these extremely rare creatures.

Spider Fact # 4 – The giant black house spider's original habitat consists mostly of caves or dry forests where it is found under rocks, but it is a very common spider in people's homes

When I appeared on the Coast to Coast radio show, one of the listeners who called in reported then when he was a young man, he and his brother had stopped by the side of the road in the desert to relieve themselves. And when standing there in the darkness, they happened to see a set of red eyes reflecting back at them. Their father very wisely told them to leave it alone, finish their business and get back in the truck, but as boys will do, they decided to pick up some rocks and through them at the thing.

What happened next would make anyone piss themselves! Hurtling out of the darkness toward the two boys was what he described as a 'giant spider' that tried to attack them before they could run screaming back to their father's truck and clamber in. The only real description of the thing he could give was that it was a big hairy tarantula-like spider but of a size that was astounding – and that he carried the nightmare of that moment for the rest of his life.

Like anyone would!

Spider Fact #5 – It is estimated that the average house or domicile has 30 spiders at any one time

So, the question is asked – are you at risk for being attacked by a giant spider in the Mojave Desert? Well, if you want the odds, I'd say you're probably not going to have to worry too much about it. You will certainly see a large tarantula or two, maybe a camel spider (the normal size ones) and some very big scorpions, especially at night, but come out and enjoy the Mojave.

But if you do see a set of red eyes (or bluish-white or even green depending on the species) looking back at you reflecting from your campfire or flashlight – DON'T throw any rocks at it!

Cheers!

BONUS Spider Tips

– Don't leave your tent unzipped during the day or night, that's just asking to have a whole bunch of creepy crawly visitors come in (they're looking for shade or warmth too) and pay you a visit.

– Never leave your boots or clothes laying on the ground. And if you do, make sure you shake them out well before putting them on.

– Make sure there are no spider burrows or holes under your tent or tarp. Blocking the entrance to one's home means he or she just might decide to give you a nasty surprise while you lay sleeping – or getting up in the morning and stepping out.

– Don't squash a spider in the desert – the great spirit of all living things will get mad and send a real big one to make your life painful as hell. Daves pc mac os.

Okay, I made that one up, but you know the drill – live and let live!

JUST IN: This article claims that spiders all over the world are getting larger because of extended seasons due to climate change! Yow! Just what we needed, right?