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I found myself caught out by a bit of my own stupidity at work today. I got in after the weekend to find that my shitbox at work had rebooted itself. Leaving the download I kicked off last week unfinished. So I started up LeechGet[^] and started the download again. After a while I went back to see how it was going, only to find it Not Responding. I killed the task and started it again. A few minutes later the same thing happened. I ran Norton's Windoctor, cleaned up a few problems, rebooted and tried again. Same result. There was no log file to look at and I couldn't think of what could be causing this. I stopped and started a few more times and then finally had a thought. Maybe I was running out of disk space. I only have 4GB at work and was downloading the MSDN iso's Mike Dunn pointed us too. I have 20 times this amount of space at home so it is never a problem. I had a look only to find 412KB of free space. Deleted a lot of crap, burn't the successfully downloaded iso's to CD, deleted them and then kicked off the download. Not a single problem. All it took was to be out of the programming game for 18 months and my debugging skills are non-existant. :omg: Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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I found myself caught out by a bit of my own stupidity at work today. I got in after the weekend to find that my shitbox at work had rebooted itself. Leaving the download I kicked off last week unfinished. So I started up LeechGet[^] and started the download again. After a while I went back to see how it was going, only to find it Not Responding. I killed the task and started it again. A few minutes later the same thing happened. I ran Norton's Windoctor, cleaned up a few problems, rebooted and tried again. Same result. There was no log file to look at and I couldn't think of what could be causing this. I stopped and started a few more times and then finally had a thought. Maybe I was running out of disk space. I only have 4GB at work and was downloading the MSDN iso's Mike Dunn pointed us too. I have 20 times this amount of space at home so it is never a problem. I had a look only to find 412KB of free space. Deleted a lot of crap, burn't the successfully downloaded iso's to CD, deleted them and then kicked off the download. Not a single problem. All it took was to be out of the programming game for 18 months and my debugging skills are non-existant. :omg: Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
I really think the application should have caught this and not AV'd or GPF'd or whatever because of a lack of diskspace? Does this sound crazy to anyone else? Surely the app could have recovered gracefully if not suggested to the user "Hey why don't you run disk cleanup wizard" or something along those lines? I know what you mean about debugging skills though! MacDev;
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I really think the application should have caught this and not AV'd or GPF'd or whatever because of a lack of diskspace? Does this sound crazy to anyone else? Surely the app could have recovered gracefully if not suggested to the user "Hey why don't you run disk cleanup wizard" or something along those lines? I know what you mean about debugging skills though! MacDev;
MacDev wrote: I really think the application should have caught this and not AV'd or GPF'd or whatever because of a lack of diskspace? Does this sound crazy to anyone else? Surely the app could have recovered gracefully if not suggested to the user "Hey why don't you run disk cleanup wizard" or something along those lines? I agree fully. It's still a great product but I will have to send a bug report to the author before I forget. MacDev wrote: I know what you mean about debugging skills though! Yep, I think CPR wouldn't save mine at this point. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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I found myself caught out by a bit of my own stupidity at work today. I got in after the weekend to find that my shitbox at work had rebooted itself. Leaving the download I kicked off last week unfinished. So I started up LeechGet[^] and started the download again. After a while I went back to see how it was going, only to find it Not Responding. I killed the task and started it again. A few minutes later the same thing happened. I ran Norton's Windoctor, cleaned up a few problems, rebooted and tried again. Same result. There was no log file to look at and I couldn't think of what could be causing this. I stopped and started a few more times and then finally had a thought. Maybe I was running out of disk space. I only have 4GB at work and was downloading the MSDN iso's Mike Dunn pointed us too. I have 20 times this amount of space at home so it is never a problem. I had a look only to find 412KB of free space. Deleted a lot of crap, burn't the successfully downloaded iso's to CD, deleted them and then kicked off the download. Not a single problem. All it took was to be out of the programming game for 18 months and my debugging skills are non-existant. :omg: Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
Michael Martin wrote: I only have 4GB at work Well, now I do not feel quite as bad with my 20 Gig at work. I have 10 --> 30-80 gig drives at home. Still how much time (and $$$) is wasted due these cost savings! :mad: Michael Martin wrote: All it took was to be out of the programming game for 18 months and my debugging skills are non-existant. I have to say I do understand :-O ""
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Michael Martin wrote: I only have 4GB at work Well, now I do not feel quite as bad with my 20 Gig at work. I have 10 --> 30-80 gig drives at home. Still how much time (and $$$) is wasted due these cost savings! :mad: Michael Martin wrote: All it took was to be out of the programming game for 18 months and my debugging skills are non-existant. I have to say I do understand :-O ""
Michael A. Barnhart wrote: Still how much time (and $$$) is wasted due these cost savings! :mad: It's worse than you think Michael. The machine in question is an old AMD K6-266 I found in the garage at home. I was retrenched from my programming/consultant role in Novemeber 2001. Didn't get a job outside of a warehouse until December 2002. It is with Mission Australia as a supervisor for Work For the Dole. I work with the long term unemployed giving them something to do. I got the job after being a participant last year. The government makes you do it. At last I am on a project I started, it is refurbishing old computers and putting Linux/FreeBSD on them and giving them to the needy in the community. Better than the community radio station shit I had for 4.5 months. At work they are still running old NT 4 Workstation boxes which I can gain Admin priviliges on. New machines are being rolled out with XP locked down so tight I can't even change the TaskBar. The IT person in my office couldn't spit shine my boots in relation to what I know. They aren't even computer literate, but they have been chosen and I haven't. So I have set my project up in a room no one ventures into, I have my own machines setup my way and I am able to access the internet through their network. No proxy server, no requirements to be logged into the domain before accessing the internet. They have no idea. I hope the market picks up soon. Though the certificates (OH&S Supervisors and Line Managers, Senior First Aid, Category 4 Workplace Trainer and Assesor) I am picking up will be useful in big business and I hope to pick up my Linux skills before moving back to the real world. Looks like I might pick up a license to drive medium sized buses and trucks on the bosses dime here too. :) Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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I found myself caught out by a bit of my own stupidity at work today. I got in after the weekend to find that my shitbox at work had rebooted itself. Leaving the download I kicked off last week unfinished. So I started up LeechGet[^] and started the download again. After a while I went back to see how it was going, only to find it Not Responding. I killed the task and started it again. A few minutes later the same thing happened. I ran Norton's Windoctor, cleaned up a few problems, rebooted and tried again. Same result. There was no log file to look at and I couldn't think of what could be causing this. I stopped and started a few more times and then finally had a thought. Maybe I was running out of disk space. I only have 4GB at work and was downloading the MSDN iso's Mike Dunn pointed us too. I have 20 times this amount of space at home so it is never a problem. I had a look only to find 412KB of free space. Deleted a lot of crap, burn't the successfully downloaded iso's to CD, deleted them and then kicked off the download. Not a single problem. All it took was to be out of the programming game for 18 months and my debugging skills are non-existant. :omg: Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
Michael Martin wrote: I only have 4GB at work Shit! I rougly need 1Gig just for the temps of a complete build! Michael Martin wrote: All it took was to be out of the programming game for 18 months and my debugging skills are non-existant Ahh... BEST BUY!! $1 off our "I used to be a programmer but I have recovered" T-Shirts! Limited Stock! Grab the phone NOW!
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote: Still how much time (and $$$) is wasted due these cost savings! :mad: It's worse than you think Michael. The machine in question is an old AMD K6-266 I found in the garage at home. I was retrenched from my programming/consultant role in Novemeber 2001. Didn't get a job outside of a warehouse until December 2002. It is with Mission Australia as a supervisor for Work For the Dole. I work with the long term unemployed giving them something to do. I got the job after being a participant last year. The government makes you do it. At last I am on a project I started, it is refurbishing old computers and putting Linux/FreeBSD on them and giving them to the needy in the community. Better than the community radio station shit I had for 4.5 months. At work they are still running old NT 4 Workstation boxes which I can gain Admin priviliges on. New machines are being rolled out with XP locked down so tight I can't even change the TaskBar. The IT person in my office couldn't spit shine my boots in relation to what I know. They aren't even computer literate, but they have been chosen and I haven't. So I have set my project up in a room no one ventures into, I have my own machines setup my way and I am able to access the internet through their network. No proxy server, no requirements to be logged into the domain before accessing the internet. They have no idea. I hope the market picks up soon. Though the certificates (OH&S Supervisors and Line Managers, Senior First Aid, Category 4 Workplace Trainer and Assesor) I am picking up will be useful in big business and I hope to pick up my Linux skills before moving back to the real world. Looks like I might pick up a license to drive medium sized buses and trucks on the bosses dime here too. :) Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
Michael Martin wrote: At last I am on a project I started, it is refurbishing old computers and putting Linux/FreeBSD on them and giving them to the needy in the community. Better than the community radio station sh*t I had for 4.5 months. Bravo! It sounds a lot more interesting than warehousing, Michael. How is your independent stuff working out? Do the natives regard you with appropriate awe and reverence yet? "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote: Still how much time (and $$$) is wasted due these cost savings! :mad: It's worse than you think Michael. The machine in question is an old AMD K6-266 I found in the garage at home. I was retrenched from my programming/consultant role in Novemeber 2001. Didn't get a job outside of a warehouse until December 2002. It is with Mission Australia as a supervisor for Work For the Dole. I work with the long term unemployed giving them something to do. I got the job after being a participant last year. The government makes you do it. At last I am on a project I started, it is refurbishing old computers and putting Linux/FreeBSD on them and giving them to the needy in the community. Better than the community radio station shit I had for 4.5 months. At work they are still running old NT 4 Workstation boxes which I can gain Admin priviliges on. New machines are being rolled out with XP locked down so tight I can't even change the TaskBar. The IT person in my office couldn't spit shine my boots in relation to what I know. They aren't even computer literate, but they have been chosen and I haven't. So I have set my project up in a room no one ventures into, I have my own machines setup my way and I am able to access the internet through their network. No proxy server, no requirements to be logged into the domain before accessing the internet. They have no idea. I hope the market picks up soon. Though the certificates (OH&S Supervisors and Line Managers, Senior First Aid, Category 4 Workplace Trainer and Assesor) I am picking up will be useful in big business and I hope to pick up my Linux skills before moving back to the real world. Looks like I might pick up a license to drive medium sized buses and trucks on the bosses dime here too. :) Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
Michael Martin wrote: I hope the market picks up soon. Though the certificates (OH&S Supervisors and Line Managers, Senior First Aid, Category 4 Workplace Trainer and Assesor) I am picking up will be useful in big business and I hope to pick up my Linux skills before moving back to the real world. Looks like I might pick up a license to drive medium sized buses and trucks on the bosses dime here too. If you can, get a forklift ticket as well. That's always handy in the down times. Jeff Green - Greentrees All pigs fed and ready to fly jefgre@tpg.com.au MSN: jefgre@tpg.com.au