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# Pffffffft!
I love it when 'force quit' needs to be force quit, effectively meaning you have to either restart finder - or, if that doesn't work, just holding down the power button until it dies. :)
(I helped save b3ta! grey kid is breakdancing to save a community centre, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 22:55, archived)
# given that it's all proper unix-like these days,
can't you just kill -9 ?

doesn't know really
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 22:57, archived)
# You can, yes.
I expect that you could even do some kind of pipeline of ps, grep, xargs, and kill if you were feeling reeeeel fancy.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 23:00, archived)
# Yeah!
I worte a shell script called killitHARD.

But all it consisted of was kill -9 so it wasn't a great display of skillz.

Ho hum.
(I helped save b3ta! Ghoti Fingers, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 23:01, archived)
# hmmm.

deadYet = false
while (!deadYet) {
  kill -9 $process
  if -x $process
    deadYet = true
}
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 23:10, archived)
# Is anyone watching Newsnight?
How shite are their sound techs :D
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 22:57, archived)