UPDATE from the story below.
UPDATE from the story below. So I just overheated my computer. It's felling better now.
I would like very much to be upset, but it's hard to be. It's a sweet machine. 1.5G of RAM. 3.06G Intel PIV processor. 200G hard drive. I have now reached the stage of computing power where everything can be feasibly measured in gigabytes.
INTERESTING SIDENOTE: Did you ever wonder why in Back to the Future, Dr. Brown pronounced "gigawatt" with a "j" sound? Turns out, according to the producer, Bob Gale, that in doing the research for the film, they talked to the only scientist in the western hemisphere who happened to pronounce gigawatt like "jiggawatt". It made sense to them. After all, "gigantic" comes from the same root word, from the Greek, and it's obviously pronounced with a "j". So they never double-checked it with anyone, thus making it one of the most pronounced pronunciation errors in the history of film.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Turns out that MySQL got away with a runaway process when it couldn't handle a bad query I sent it. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah is probably what that means to you. But I'm going to sit here and preen because I was able to figure out exactly what was wrong, and fix the damage, thus averting another meltdown. BLBLBLBLBLBBBB!!!!! (That's the sound of me sticking out my tounge.)
Posted by Matt at February 13, 2003 5:43 AM
