Tired of freezing laptop

[Pat Brown]

steve wrote:
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>> How do I get to a terminal when my X is frozen? I'll try that next time 
>> it freezes.
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> I believe what your looking for is typing this in a terminal from
> another linux box,,,, or windows through putty
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> ssh username at 192.168.1.100     (change the ip and username to the
> laptops info)
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> type your password
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> then issue the command
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> top
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> this will show you all processes in memory. your looking to press k
> which will kill a "pid"  look for the # of the pid which exceeds say
> 70-80, and kill it. (press k, then the pid#, then enter.  itll probably
> be konqueror.
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> man top  in a terminal for more info on that command.
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> - --
> Steve Reilly
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> http://reillyblog.com
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Except I don't have another Linux box or a Windows machine. (Yet)

Pat Brown
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