First the warning: NBC's Olympic Website has really great video archives--full video of every competitor in every event--but do NOT leave a video player window open overnight. Reason: Silverlight, at least when displaying NBC's Olympics video (I've read anecdotally it doesn't happen on other Silverlight video), dumps massive numbers of error messages into the system log. If you leave it open for a long time, it will bloat the log to several gigabytes, and potentially fill up all available space on your hard drive.
I learned this the hard way when I forgot to close the browser window after watching some Olympic coverage on my mini hooked to the living room TV. When I went to use it about 24 hours later it had hung on a completely full hard drive. Some Googling turned up an Apple Discussions thread with several people who'd had exactly the same thing happen.
Now the question: I've accidentally run something that filled my hard drive before, but usually it just complains and starts throwing up errors because of lack of space. In this case the Mini had apparently gone to sleep--at least, the light was pulsing--but refused to wake no matter what I did. Stranger still, it was still rather warm--the fan didn't seem to be on (hard to tell since it's so quiet if it's not running fast), but either I noticed RIGHT after it hung, or it was still generating some heat.
Anybody seen this symptom of a crash--sleep but won't wake? And if so, ever noticed the computer still keeping some component awake enough to generate heat? I'm assuming it's just software, but firmware-level weirdness like that always makes me nervous.
I learned this the hard way when I forgot to close the browser window after watching some Olympic coverage on my mini hooked to the living room TV. When I went to use it about 24 hours later it had hung on a completely full hard drive. Some Googling turned up an Apple Discussions thread with several people who'd had exactly the same thing happen.
Now the question: I've accidentally run something that filled my hard drive before, but usually it just complains and starts throwing up errors because of lack of space. In this case the Mini had apparently gone to sleep--at least, the light was pulsing--but refused to wake no matter what I did. Stranger still, it was still rather warm--the fan didn't seem to be on (hard to tell since it's so quiet if it's not running fast), but either I noticed RIGHT after it hung, or it was still generating some heat.
Anybody seen this symptom of a crash--sleep but won't wake? And if so, ever noticed the computer still keeping some component awake enough to generate heat? I'm assuming it's just software, but firmware-level weirdness like that always makes me nervous.