1. Re[2]: Editor Developers.....Do Something
> On 25 Mar 2002, at 12:54, jordah ferguson wrote:
> <snip>
>> This is a notice and humble request to all programmers out there
>> developing windows editors. PLEASE,
>> I REPEAT PLEASE....Add Autosave option to your editors in their next
>> releases. Lazy freaks like me who
>> get buried in programming and don't usually save, get really frustrated
>> when all our work is lost due to power
>> failure.
> <snip>
> You should REALLY REALLY use a UPS with a surge protector in it. Eu is
> useless to you if the hardware gets fried. They are in the ballpark of
> $100USD, and are the cheapest, most cost effective insurance you can
> have. They have saved my electronics and my programming code WAY too
> many times to count. Proper computer use is to plug it into a UPS when you
> get the computer home, install a firewall, and *only then* do you go online.
Not much help when windows decides that today is a good day to die ;)
> Besides, it makes the neighbors wonder about you when the power for the
> whole county goes out, and your sterio didn't skip a note. 
> And save things when you make a significant or difficult or Eureka! change to
> any code. Mycode1.e, mycode2.e, mycode3.e, etc.
Ah, the joys of CVS! :)
> Kat
Thomas Parslow (PatRat)
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2. Re: Re[2]: Editor Developers.....Do Something
On 25 Mar 2002, at 23:35, Thomas Parslow (PatRat) wrote:
<snip>
> > Besides, it makes the neighbors wonder about you when the power for the
> > whole county goes out, and your sterio didn't skip a note.
>
> > And save things when you make a significant or difficult or Eureka! change
> > to
> > any code. Mycode1.e, mycode2.e, mycode3.e, etc.
>
> Ah, the joys of CVS! :)
A ferro-resonant or stepping auto-xformer CVS is not a UPS.
Kat
