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You are exactly right Dennis. I was remembering "Grace Hopper" and a piece I saw on a PBS show eons ago. She carried a piece of wire in her purse about 9 inches long and that was a nanosecond. A picosecond was a thousandth of that.... Still I describe my wifes clicking at the picosecond level... Just for giggles, here is more on Grace.. the mother of COBOL.. http://wayne.home.texas.net/~wayne/grace1.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:07 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Runaway R:Base processes / R:Base won'tstart. > Mike, > > I'm coming in a little late here but I heard my high school physic teacher > groan. > He walked into class one day holding a piece of copper wire about a foot > long and exclaimed, "This is a nano second". Or how far electricity (or > light) travels in one billionth of a second. > I did the math, and I think he's still right. Although it may have been > slower back then<g> > ... > > At 11:37 AM 12/7/2004 -0500, you wrote: > >Sounds like my wife is working there. > > > >She double clicks "everything". Further if she doesn't see activity > >within the > >first 1.5 picoseconds (for the uninitiated, at the speed of light, light > >travels just 9 inches each picosecond), she is likely to doubleclick again... > > > >So task bar items get launched twice, and more than one of program is > >ill-behaved when a quick double click tries to start virtually simultaneous > >launches. Example is IE sometimes completely hangs on her XP box when started > >this way. I have threatened bodily harm, but she just laughs at me.... > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Lawrence Lustig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:22 AM > >Subject: [RBG7-L] - Runaway R:Base processes / R:Base won't start. > > > > > > > At a large installation, I have the following problem on a small number of > > > machines: > > > > > > Sometimes R:Base appears not to start. You can click on the icon several > > > times, but the application's menu does not appear on the screen. Checking > >the > > > process list in Task Manager, I am able to see a number of RBG7 processes > > > running (more than I tried to start, so I think that someone had run some > > > before I got to the machine). > > > > > > One of the processes is racking up time on the CPU. When I kill that one, > >the > > > menus for the others appear on the desktop. > > > > > > Has anyone experienced anything like this, with R:Base sessions running in > >Task > > > Manager but not appearing on the desktop? > > > > > > My icon runs R:Base and uses a DAT command file to open the database > > and load > > > the form which has the main menu. > > > -- > > > Larry > > > > > Dennis Fleming > IISCO > http://www.TheBestCMMS.com > Phone: 570 775-7593 > Mobile: 570 351-5290 >
