Programs dying at bad times.....

Metallica Man X · Post by **Metallica Man X** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:37 pm

So there I was, recording my demo for the possumus song....when suddenly, the program I was using to mix and master DIED! 2+ Hours of a-grade recording straight down the tubes!!!!!

Needless to say, I was quite infuriated!

So yeah, gotta vent a little.

Anybody else out there ever have a computer program (or computer) croak at a really bad time, and wind up losing everything?

Post by **bicostp** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:45 pm

Firefox has about a 1 in 2 chance of dying when I try to play anything with the Quicktime plugin, or am downloading 2 files while trying to open a Flash movie.

At work we do about 75% of our work in client-server programs that were developed in-house. Needless to say they pick the most inopportune times to go 6 feet under.

palmertech · Post by **palmertech** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:46 pm

Yep. Laptop, writing my term paper due in 6 hours, finally done, about to do a final save, then.... BAM!! The screen backlight goes out! The inverter blew!

No way to save, no time to figure out a solution... I got lucky, and was able to pull the back panel off and shine a flashlight through. Dang, that was close.

Not really a program, but kinda relevant.

Post by **bicostp** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:57 pm

Ctrl+S?

palmertech · Post by **palmertech** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:01 pm

What would I have done then? I cannot print from that computer, I always email to myself (To have an online backup) then print from a desktop hooked up to the printer.

So I was indeed stuck.

SonyPortableizer · Post by **SonyPortableizer** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:03 pm

Yep, same thing had a paper due then my comp turned itself off and was gone
Why all the data was still on the ram...

nightwheel · Post by **nightwheel** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:37 pm

Google Chrome like to crash when I'm trying to run Youtube video while I'm busy writing a somewhat important post on a forum.

Bibin · Post by **Bibin** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:21 pm

palmertech wrote:What would I have done then? I cannot print from that computer, I always email to myself (To have an online backup) then print from a desktop hooked up to the printer.

So I was indeed stuck.

That's why you always run a VNC server with dfmirage installed, with a password.

For those wondering, dfmirage is a mirror driver that nearly triples the performance of VNC on windows computers (server-side)

Google chrome has yet to crash for me.

Post by **Skyone** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:28 pm

Spore just crashed on me after a full 2 hours in the tribal stage.

So I cheated, and now I'm in space!

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:13 pm

nightwheel wrote:Google Chrome like to crash when I'm trying to run Youtube video while I'm busy writing a somewhat important post on a forum.

Yeah, that's what I didn't like about Google Chrome.

I started playing Tribes Vengeance again after a long time, and now whenever something good happens, like me getting the flag for capture the flag, the timer stops, the people disappear, and my gun won't fire, and I can't change weapons. It's really strange. It never happened before, but I had to reinstall the game after reinstalling Windows, so maybe that's the problem.