Re: "Never change a running system"

Dylan Sung wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:43315314.3091@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > aschmid@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> Does anybody know where the expression "Never change a running system."
> >> comes from or who said it the first time? A short search session in
> >> google has not shown a answer but the interesting fact that this
> >> expression is more often used in german use groups than (as one could
> >> expect) in english use groups.
> >
> > What does it mean? Is it anything like "don't change horses in the
> > middle of the stream"?
> >
> > Does it have to do with the fact that Windows will crash at the drop of
> > a hat, or even with no hat activity whatsoever?
>
> Probably due to some internal memory conflict... Dodgy programming? :)

MSWord2003?

It started happening when I started working on a 400-page file; it
hadn't done it on the < 200-page file I'd begun with, but then it did it
in that one, too. And also in the New Yorker Complete Cartoons CD. (I'd
bought that because it said it was Mac-compatible -- it didn't say OS X
only. Which I now have the added RAM so I can upgrade to.)

> > (A new client has placed a Windows XP machine in my office, and it
> > frequently turns itself off. I've set Word to AutoSave every 1 minute
> > and I do a manual Save after just about every paragraph. Whereas when a
> > Mac crashes, you rarely lose anything but the latest changes in the
> > particular document you're working on -- and it certainly doesn't do it
> > every few minutes and out of the blue.)
>
> I think the newer MS Works can recover from crashes. Programs which

Not MSWorks, no "not responding," and no error message. It simple shuts
off.

> encounter a fault usually are "not responding", or tells you of some error.
> If you close the application, it will give you a notice saying it
> encountered a problem and would you like to send on information about the
> problem to Microsoft...
>
> One of the problems with Window's management of data is it's use of

it's?

> temporary files. Stuff gets written to it, and if you have some sort of
> conflict anywhere accessing memory, it can cause the machine to crash and
> perform an automatic boot up. If the temporary files were corrupted in the
> process, on startup, Windows tries to locate stuff, and it will search, and
> search and search, and not finding the bit it's looking for in the temporary
> file, it may crash again. It happened on my win 95, and I've experienced it
> on Win XP. I had created several log-in users on the machine, so I could
> access the files I've saved, however, in the affected username I was working
> in at the time, all the so-called "settings" weren't saved properly, and so,
> even the stuff which was in My Documents had been lost. That is, the
> addresses of the places on the hard disk where the filenames and data were
> being kept was lost.

It doesn't seem to be anything that clever -- it just shuts off, and
nothing is lost but the changes since the last Save. No "My Documents."

> If you're using XP, do consider saving any precious files into a location,
> preferably not in My Documents, but on the hard disk which (can be accessed
> by other though), if the machine is yours. It will save you worry and
> headaches later, if you have one of these corrupted temp files. Else, buy
> one of those USB memory sticks which have 128 or more megabytes of memory on
> them.

At home in their office, it was simply connected to their central
server. The files I needed were copied to its hard drive when I picked
it up.

But let's not have a lengthy thread on computer inadequacies ...
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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