That sounds like a fall over message. What ever the problem is it
doesn't have it's own error message, and whoever wrote the routine just
defaulted to /something/. The original programmer either no longer
works for or never worked for either company, and never documented the
"feature".
When I was working for a company on a printer routine, the HP Laserjet
II driver would regularly fail when rendering large documents with no
error message. When that happened rather than display a meaningless
message my routine simply, cleaned up after itself and exited gracefully
with a general error code. It should have probably logged the unknown
error from the printer driver or popped up a dialog box, but there
wasn't time to do it right and it was better than taking down the whole
application, or, considering that it was for Windows 3.0, crashing the
operating system.
There was always a plan to go back and add some kind of logging and or
error notification, as well as producing some kind of documentation
besides my somewhat cryptic comment in the code. Well I get caught in
the in the next big layoff about a year a later, probably because I'd
peed off my bosses boss, (calling a moron, stupid to his face is
probably not the best way to insure job security), and it still hadn't
been done. I expect their help desk still gets calls asking where the
document went.
On 6/6/2012 12:11 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
Strange things do pop up from time to time Walt.
I tried to re-format a potentially defective 1 TB drive last week, and was consistently
told there was "insufficient memory" for the task by Disk Utility. Apple and
Iomega have no idea what that means or what brought it up.
On Jun 5, 2012, at 04:59 , Walter Hamler wrote:
Yes, mine is only 8 months old and I added 3 - 4 gig cards right after
buying. I have also updated to Lion. The machine is fast, but not a
steamroller for sure. I just can't figure out why I come up with the
msg that there isn't enough ram. I strongly suspect it has something
to do with ram allocation from my PC days. However, it may well be
that when PSE is crunching something as large as a 7 photo merge it
uses up assets faster than I realize :-)
Walt
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Joseph McAllister<pentax...@mac.com> wrote:
If your specs say that iMac will use 12 GB of RAM, it will. Maybe more. My iMac
is limited to 4 GB, but if matched it will take a 4 GB and 2 GB simm. Many of
the usual programs will use that extra 2 GB. Certainly speeds up Aperture and
PS, and everything else.
If it doesn’t excite you,
This thing that you see,
Why in the world,
Would it excite me?
—Jay Maisel
Joseph McAllister
pentax...@mac.com
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