Re: Editor Developers.....Do Something
On 25 Mar 2002, at 21:55, tone.skoda at siol.net wrote:
>
> That's why I keep pressing CTRL+s. Get used to it.
You still need a UPS with surge protection. Getting a power failure in the
middle of a save can trash the disk. Especially backup-and-save operations,
when the drive may still have the physical files open in cache, not on the
platters, so you'll lose the old file and the new one. Or the OS may have it in
swap space. Getting power loss during a defrag is even worse. I save often
too, my hds never get a chance to power down. Like Chris said, some UPSs
come with a program for windows that will send a save-and-quit msg to all
open apps, and then tell windows itself to shut down. I don't have that
installed, but then i was up 10hrs once during a power outage. Car battery,
get used to it.
Maybe it's the olde timers who stress this the most, because long ago in the
days of the early computers (15 yrs ago), saving a 1 meg file might take a
few minutes, greater chance of crashes happening. But back then the OSs
were sturdier too.
Kat
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Kat
> >
> >
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