Ars Technica

Could not end process from taskmgr or with kill command line util -- what's going on here?

I was watching a divx 5 movie in WMP (version 6.4.09.1109) when my movie froze. After a little while I hit close and got a "not responding" message, so I forced a close. Then I opened the movie again ...
Network World

There’s more than one way to kill a Unix process

Terminating processes on Unix systems is not quite an art, but there are sure a lot more options for how to select and terminate Unix processes than there are ways to skin a cat. In this post, we take ...
OS X Daily

btop for MacOS is an Excellent Terminal System Resource Monitor

If you’re a command line enthusiast and you’re the type of Mac user who likes to keep an eye on your system resources and ...
Ars Technica

How to kill an unkillable process?

I have an Epson Perfection 4180 PhotoScanner. Usually, it works fine with the Epson-supplied scanning software.<BR><BR>Tonight I opened the "Epson SmartPanel" which is the overall controlling program ...