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Ouch, how did that end?
My bug just went away after a few hours 
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We once had a customer that reported sporadic freezes and reboots. There did not seem to be any pattern to them and I was finally sent onsite to diagnose the problem. When I got there, I found a mouse nest inside the computer. One of those plates that cover the unused card slots on the back of the computer was missing and the critter was using that to get in and out. What makes this more amazing is that it was in a medical lab in a hospital!
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Dan Best
It's a hard life, but somebody's got to live it if only to act as an inspiration to others.
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Wow, mice in a medical lab, who would've thunk it?
Speaking of sporadic freezes and reboots... I once had a customer who printed some 100 invoices at the end of each day.
Ever since we delivered that software they complained that the printer would stop after a couple of prints and they had to reprint about half of the invoices.
Not always though, never during the day and sometimes at the end of the day, but other than that no pattern could be found.
I checked the code, debugged, tested, despite not finding anything made it more fool proof, added additional logging...
Nothing.
I even went over there and everything worked fine during the entire day.
And then a couple of days later I got that call again, not all the invoices were printed.
The logging said the same, only x out of y invoices printed.
So one day my manager was there at around the time of the printing and he decided to just walk in unannounced and uninvited.
He soon found out the problem...
They'd press the print button for 100 invoices and then turned off their computers... 
No one there ever thought it could have anything to do with it 
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One of my coworkers went on site at another lab to diagnose mysterious sporadic reboots and freezes that we had been unable to find the cause of from afar. It turned out that the computer was plugged into a UPS as per our installation recommendations. However they had also plugged a refrigerator into the UPS (after all, they didn't want their samples thawing out during a power outage). Every now and then, when the refrigerator compressor came on, our computer would reboot.
Go figure.
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Those are the fun "bugs" 
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Quote: Hopefully it will go away by itself...
That's how I handle most of my debugging!
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Did you recognize that meanwhile the approving history is visible for pending articles when hoover over the red flag?
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I think it's a new feature. I like it. 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Could be useful, if the list didn't appear outside of the browser window. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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0x01AA wrote: when hoover over the red flag?
why is your vacuum cleaner up there?
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"corrected" 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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He spies!
For the FBI!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I guess you already could from the title feel the suffering behind the screen
I didn't think it will win the 1# most installed app , But , I didn't also think that only 2 users will install it , I nearly posted it everywhere , github , facebook , heckster , amazon app store .
Do you think i should stop wasting time on it and move to another porject ?
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Yes. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nothing you can do with it at the moment: you don't know how it's going to be taken, or what direction customers think it needs improving. So leave it out there for a moment, and see what feedback you get, if any.
If you don't get any installations or any feedback, you probably need to market it better - getting people to install it is the first step to getting comments. No installs == no feedback == no idea how to improve the product.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes that's exactly my problem , i knew that it won't be the best app ever , but i thought at least it will be badly rated :/
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Check how you are selling it. Not as in "how much money?" but in how it's marketed, how it looks to a potential user.
Ignore that you know it, look at the page with a "user mind" and forget what you know. What does it do? How does it do it? is this something I want or need? DOes it look professional or amateur?
Getting people to download - even for free - means convincing them it's worth the time; it won;t muck up their system, it will do something they need. And if they don't download, you'll never be told why not!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You are right , Thanks alot for your time
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You're welcome!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Do you have any idea what could i have done wrong?
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Yes.
Until people start send in bug reports and suggestions for additional features. 
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If it'll fix blackfly problems for roses, you'll be *The! *Next!* *Internet!* *Billionaire!*
If not, well, it's time to crack the gardening books.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If not, well, it's time to crack the gardening books.
You could hit the blackfly with 'em?
The ones I hate are Gooseberry Sawfly.
I had two Gooseberry bushes - and I love Gooseberries - and every year they were doing really nicely. Just as the fruit was about to ripen *BOOM* in come the sawfly and strip it of fruit, leaves, everything but sticks and thorns in a matter of hours. In ten years, I got two - count them both, I did, several times - Gooseberries and they were both too unripe to eat.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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