On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 09:06:45 AM Ed Nisley did opine: > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 23:12 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > so if it did do an automatic save > > Among the other things I set up with a new OO/LO installation: > > Tools -> Options -> Load/Save General -> check "Save AutoRecovery > information every" and set the timer for 10 minutes > 5 minutes, is even better. :)
> That dramatically improves the chances of recovering *something*, > because if it's turned off, you're stuck with whatever's been manually > saved. That might be nothing at all, as you've discovered. Adding to my frustration at the instant, which was also being fed by opening a box from JameCo and discovering they had sent the wrong parts for the 2nd time. That wasn't printable either unless you like to start fires with the printer... > But, come now, you *know* recording data on a crash-test dummy box is > Bad Technique. Case in point: this past weekend at a robot contest, an > otherwise useless stack of shredded dead trees turned out to be > absolutely vital... Cushioning the inevitable crash I assume... ;-) What I'd really like to find is why these boxes ARE crash test dummies. They run very well indeed, until you quit an app. At which point there seems to be a 5 to 10% possibility of the whole box going away about 1 second after the apps screen goes away, leaving a black screen & frozen mouse cursor. Hit the reset or power buttons to recover. OTOH, if its X crashing, maybe I could try typing startx? I'll see if I can induce another such incident and try that just for S&G. I have posted a small msg on the xorg list asking if the i915 driver might be the culprit, and how to instrument it to prove/disprove the hunch. That was about 3 hours ago, no reply yet. Thanks Ed. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> "There is no statute of limitations on stupidity." -- Randomly produced by a computer program called Markov3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
