This page is dedicated to the crashing computer of your choice, and the JMK Macs especially. For those of us suffering from crash recovery syndrome, there will soon be a free clinic open on weekdays 04:00-04:15 (which is when you need it the most). There are a few numbers that I just know you are interested in. During this course I have kept track of how often I had to restart my Mac. It started out as a funny thing to say, but it ended up as a twisted obsession. Or maybe the other way around. So far this term I have crashed my computer on several occasions, always escaping without injury. During Roland Stanbridge's module, which lasted for four weeks, I had only 25 crashes. I say "only" because there were a lot more crashing going on around me at the time, when everyone was getting used to the fact that so many of the computers did not like running two programs at once, for instance. During the second module we had very little to do with the computers, so there were no serious incidents. However, as we got back into Stora Redaktionen for Mark Comerford's module, things got worse. During the first three days of classes there were only six crashes, but as the module got warmed up... so did the computers. A crash average of five a day so far. Considering that it takes three minutes to restart the computer and log on again, I have already spent 153 minutes (over an hour and a half) waiting for my computer to get ready. We are 24 people in our class, and I am not the worst afflicted by crashes, so that would make the total time more than 61 hours and 12 minutes! Magnus Hultgren at JMK, 23 April 1998  Made with a Mac -- against all odds. Return to Magnus Hultgren's page. Return to the Global 98 page. |