Found this article discussing why Apple may have taken it out as well as a hack to get it back discovered by user  “radiv78″  on the Apple Support forum.

Love me some Front Row. Thanks guys.

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…and I am still online… Generators FTW! Actually its more of a gimp right now but it’s better than nothing.

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I have been using Adium on my Mac as my primary IM application for quite some time now and I have loved it. Once Facebook chat support was added I instantly started using that feature. However, recently my Facebook contacts stopped showing up. If someone online messages me first they pop up and I can have a conversation with them, but once they disconnect it still shows them online. I had tried updates, reinstalls, and configuration changes with no avail. Doing a quick google search I found that others had the same problem and it seems to be a bug with the Facebook Chat API. I then discovered that you can connect to Facebook chat using the Jabber protocol.

1. Add a “Jabber” account (as opposed to a Facebook account).
2. Type in your Facebook username, followed by @chat.facebook.com, for examples “JoeBob@chat.facebook.com”. You’ll need to activate your username in the account preferences (Account → Account Settings → Username) of your Facebook account, using the website.
3. Set the connection server to “chat.facebook.com”, on the options pane.
4. You are ready to go and connect! Remember to turn off your old Facebook account, or remove it.

Here a couple screen shots for your convenience. Seems to work great. Enjoy.

So I’ve noticed that if you have a program crash on you Mac while running it hard, a process called spindump is started that consumes 100% of your CPU. The man page of spindump says

“spindump is a tool used by various system components to create reports when an unresponsive application is force quit.”

While this is helpful for Apple developers to solve the problem that caused you app to crash in the first place, it can be quite annoying because every running program becomes unresponsive and you can’t even start the Activity Monitor to kill off the spindump process, which if you manage to do it will just spawn up again even if you restart the computer. So here is the solution I found after poking around in the system launch daemons

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.spindump.plist