Infrequent occurrences
I’m about to reboot my computer. For most people that wouldn’t be something worth blogging about (unless they lead exceptionally dull lives, I suppose). But here’s the thing — I’m restarting it for the first time in 60 days. This isn’t some server that’s sitting in a closet running the same tasks over and over again. It’s my PowerBook. I use it for about four hours a day, every day, and I open and close apps, download software, play music, change network locations, sleep and wake the computer, and so on. Through all of that, it just works.
There’s something weird about the thought that I restart my computer less often than I get my hair cut, wash my car, or pay the rent. And since I last restarted the PowerBook, Apple has released two system software updates to make the already stable system work even better.
Why restart now? For one, coreservicesd must have crashed a couple days ago. I noticed that some icons in the Finder toolbar weren’t showing up correctly, but I didn’t realize that was a coreservicesd issue until I couldn’t drag and drop in NetNewsWire tonight. I checked, and yep, coreservicesd isn’t running. Just as importantly, though, Apple has released a new version of QuickTime and two updates to Mac OS X in the past two months. I’m currently running 10.2.4, but reports on 10.2.6 are positive, so I might as well upgrade to it. Perhaps it’ll even fix whatever caused coreservicesd to crash.