Just one quick bitch ...

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My father walked out of rehab from his heart surgery and went home a week early setting my sister into rant mode

[Peter]

Spore keeps crashing, and is essentially unplayable for me, even after I patched it.  I might try it on my laptop and see if it works better there; Alpha Centauri crashes my desktop but works fine on my laptop for some reason, so the same could be true with Spore.  I'm a bit puzzled though about why, when Spore crashes, my comp reboots.  A similar thing happens with Alpha Centauri, though in that case, the comp becomes completely and permanently unresponsive until I manually cycle the power. 

Why does my comp always have to irrecoverably freeze or reboot or something, rather than crashing to the desktop or giving a blue screen?  How can these applications fuck it up so badly that it can't even squeeze out an error message and rebooting is the only possible way to fix it?

[odeon]

My father-in-law is in very bad shape. He's hospitalised and growing weaker by the minute. We brought him home yesterday, for some Christmas food and the redistribution of parcels (yes, it's done on Christmas Eve around here), but the night that followed was almost too much for him. He had a fever when we drove him back to the hospital today.

Not sure the old guy will make it.

[Pyraxis]

 

Is it sudden or has it been building for a while?

[odeon]

It's been building up over time. He's got prostate cancer that seemed to be under control but it could be that it has spread, finally.

[Pyraxis]

Best wishes for his healing.

[duncvis]

 

wondering why folk who can't hold their drink insist on downing so much of it anyway, then inflicting their drunken theatrics on the rest of the street. 

[odeon]

Thank you, both of you.

[Peter]

I'm having computer issues again (not that I've resolved many of my past issues; I've just given up on most of them).  I'm transferring files from a video camera attached to a USB port on my laptop, through my network to my desktop (since the all the USB ports on the desktop randomly stopped working months ago, and I haven't been able to revive them).  It went ok for the first 125 or so files, but then it popped up a "path is too deep" error and refused to transfer the last handful of files, despite me trying a few times, and even though the files were the same length and in the same location and generally almost identical to the other 125 files that had transferred without a hitch.  I've had this error message before, and it's really irritating, but I searched online and some people seem to have overcome it by reducing the speed on their network adapter, so I'm trying that now, even though it's going to make it stupidly slow.  From what I've been able to gather, it's more often some sort of hardware fault than an actual issue with the path. 

Transferring large numbers of files is a complete pain in the ass in Windows XP; any time I've tried to transfer more than 50 or so files, it's been interrupted either by a "path is too deep" error or an access violation.  It's particularly bad if I open a folder to check it's contents before transferring it, since even if I navigate back to the parent directory, some Windows process will have opened them to make thumbnails or something stupid like that, and I won't be able to transfer a few of the files in the folder until I restart the comp.

P.S. Nope, dropping the speed didn't solve the problem.  It transferred about a quarter of the first file before popping up a "path is too deep" message and aborting.

[Pyraxis]

Unreliable people and their chaotic plans.

[WolFish]

gifts i don't want from people who later will tell me i have too much stuff.

[DirtDawg]

gifts i don't want from people who later will tell me i have too much stuff.

Don't open the gifts.
 
Give them to a charity, still wrapped. You will be doing good, instead of toiling over this. If you want people to stop giving you gifts, then tell them that you are donating all their gifts to a charity and thank them.

[Parts]

gifts i don't want from people who later will tell me i have too much stuff.

 

[odeon]

I'm having computer issues again (not that I've resolved many of my past issues; I've just given up on most of them).  I'm transferring files from a video camera attached to a USB port on my laptop, through my network to my desktop (since the all the USB ports on the desktop randomly stopped working months ago, and I haven't been able to revive them).  It went ok for the first 125 or so files, but then it popped up a "path is too deep" error and refused to transfer the last handful of files, despite me trying a few times, and even though the files were the same length and in the same location and generally almost identical to the other 125 files that had transferred without a hitch.  I've had this error message before, and it's really irritating, but I searched online and some people seem to have overcome it by reducing the speed on their network adapter, so I'm trying that now, even though it's going to make it stupidly slow.  From what I've been able to gather, it's more often some sort of hardware fault than an actual issue with the path. 

Transferring large numbers of files is a complete pain in the ass in Windows XP; any time I've tried to transfer more than 50 or so files, it's been interrupted either by a "path is too deep" error or an access violation.  It's particularly bad if I open a folder to check it's contents before transferring it, since even if I navigate back to the parent directory, some Windows process will have opened them to make thumbnails or something stupid like that, and I won't be able to transfer a few of the files in the folder until I restart the comp.

P.S. Nope, dropping the speed didn't solve the problem.  It transferred about a quarter of the first file before popping up a "path is too deep" message and aborting.

Is it a FAT 16 file system? Could be that the indexes are fucked.

[Parts]

My wife wants me to organize my stuff