-_- but then it means I have to figure out where I left off...cause everything got killall *'d forced termination X_x it was really weird, because I couldn't think. It's like my brain turned off. I couldn't poll my consciousness/conscious thought/conscious spectrum for status report of whether or not it was even there must have also ran out of memory...which could have also triggered core services to fold and hang the entire system for a moment...which then caused the kernel to go into a panic hm, well I don't know. I've had brain farts before ... but never really associated them with memory dumps. It's kind of like holding that kind of memory in L2/L3 cache, and then a sudden inconsistency in vcore voltage causes the CPU to lose its memory just like that (but then who has ever heard of that happening? That is more like a faulty CPU)... Brain farts are quick, painless, and stressless. The one I experienced here wasn't quick, involved some very subtle, minor, almost-silent pains, and definitely involved high CPU usage (whenever you boot, CPU usage is usually high for a bit to get everything loaded ASAP). I can't quite say it was a 'shutdown -r now' either; or maybe it partly was. Brings back memories of past occurrences -- like this one time I had a segfault. O_o I can't remember how to describe it, but I collaborated with other people via IRC and they confirmed it to be a segfault (which also rhetorically fits anyway to whatever the symptoms and conditions were). I definitely know of one thing I could do that would end up triggering a page fault / vram artifact screen. Nowadays I don't get it any more...must be the transparent kernel updates.