Just ready Have at ye's post on Money Magnet for today, and I realized that I had something big happen that I didn't even register.
Right now I am building an experimental subliminal, and this is the biggest script I have ever worked with, ~350 pages of text. It's been a bear to wrangle into place and every step is harder than usual for reasons ranging from unexpected bugs to software malfunctions to whatever, as usually happens when I try to build something with a super huge script.
While waiting for GF to be ready for breakfast this morning, I was working on processing the script. I use Linux with a K Desktop Environment, and I have 12 different desktops and lots of different programs running at the same time. More than 50 programs of various different types are in use at a time to do some of this work, and they fill the taskbar pretty durn full. When I switched from what I was doing to something in a web browser for a moment, I lost my place and I couldn't find which word processor instance I was working with. I started clicking through them, but instead of just bringing them up, they were disappearing from the task bar, like they were being closed, instead of being given focus.
Now I can't tell you too much about the specifics of the particular job I was in the middle of doing, but I can tell you that if this was interrupted in the middle, I would have to scrap everything and start over to make sure it wasn't missing important scripting and was done right. It takes about 6 hours to do that particular job.
When I realized that I was about 4 hours in and this thing was closing word processor instances when I was asking it to give them focus, I got justifiably mad. What the hell, man! All this work thrown in the trash because of a damned bug in the taskbar?!
I started getting upset and being negative, and GF started responding with negativity also, and then we left, and I just... calmed down. Instead of being mad, I started looking for ways to recover from this damage without having to start over. Surely the unprocessed files would have different file sizes and time stamps that would give them away. By the time we got to breakfast, I had completely forgotten about it and enjoyed my breakfast.
Got home, and finished the ones that were still open, only to discover that lo and behold, they were all still there, and the bug had been in showing how many instances of the programs were open because I apparently went far beyond what the programmers expected anyone to have open at once. No problem at all!
Now... this went under the radar because it was so smooth and natural, but reading Have at ye's experience made me realize what I would have done without the Positive Thinking/Positive Attitude scripting in Money Magnet. That would normally have sent me into a rage quit. The difficulty and complexity of this work is monumental, and it's very slow and tedious, and it requires me to remember a lot of variables all the time it's being done. In other words, it's a real pain in the ass. Getting that far in and having to start over would normally have pissed me off so badly that I might not have come back to int for several days or even a week. I would never have gotten far enough to know that it was all still there.
The difference is absolutely astonishing... once I realized what happened. Night and day. And it was so smooth and natural that I had no idea what happened until I was prompted by someone else's experience and thought about it.
And now I'm done processing the text and I am processing the audio. There's a Windows program I use during part of my audio processing phase, and the WINE loader got updated earlier. Apparently, it is now broken again, because instead of allowing me to simply select all of the audio files and load them with one click, it now tells me that the first one is fine, but it cannot find any of the others. There are dozens of audio files that I work with to make these things at this level of tech. And since I don't have time to do regression testing for the off chance that I might find one that works, I had to load all of these files one at a time, manually. Which really wouldn't be so bad, except that they're huge and slow to load and the load screen requires me to scroll to the side each time to see most of audio files.
But this didn't upset me nearly as much as it normally would have. I just kept going, and stayed on task, loaded them, and started the actual audio processing.
MM and 5.11G are working in ways that are hard to see, because it's so smooth and natural. But I'm much farther along than I would be otherwise because of PTPA.
Right now I am building an experimental subliminal, and this is the biggest script I have ever worked with, ~350 pages of text. It's been a bear to wrangle into place and every step is harder than usual for reasons ranging from unexpected bugs to software malfunctions to whatever, as usually happens when I try to build something with a super huge script.
While waiting for GF to be ready for breakfast this morning, I was working on processing the script. I use Linux with a K Desktop Environment, and I have 12 different desktops and lots of different programs running at the same time. More than 50 programs of various different types are in use at a time to do some of this work, and they fill the taskbar pretty durn full. When I switched from what I was doing to something in a web browser for a moment, I lost my place and I couldn't find which word processor instance I was working with. I started clicking through them, but instead of just bringing them up, they were disappearing from the task bar, like they were being closed, instead of being given focus.
Now I can't tell you too much about the specifics of the particular job I was in the middle of doing, but I can tell you that if this was interrupted in the middle, I would have to scrap everything and start over to make sure it wasn't missing important scripting and was done right. It takes about 6 hours to do that particular job.
When I realized that I was about 4 hours in and this thing was closing word processor instances when I was asking it to give them focus, I got justifiably mad. What the hell, man! All this work thrown in the trash because of a damned bug in the taskbar?!
I started getting upset and being negative, and GF started responding with negativity also, and then we left, and I just... calmed down. Instead of being mad, I started looking for ways to recover from this damage without having to start over. Surely the unprocessed files would have different file sizes and time stamps that would give them away. By the time we got to breakfast, I had completely forgotten about it and enjoyed my breakfast.
Got home, and finished the ones that were still open, only to discover that lo and behold, they were all still there, and the bug had been in showing how many instances of the programs were open because I apparently went far beyond what the programmers expected anyone to have open at once. No problem at all!
Now... this went under the radar because it was so smooth and natural, but reading Have at ye's experience made me realize what I would have done without the Positive Thinking/Positive Attitude scripting in Money Magnet. That would normally have sent me into a rage quit. The difficulty and complexity of this work is monumental, and it's very slow and tedious, and it requires me to remember a lot of variables all the time it's being done. In other words, it's a real pain in the ass. Getting that far in and having to start over would normally have pissed me off so badly that I might not have come back to int for several days or even a week. I would never have gotten far enough to know that it was all still there.
The difference is absolutely astonishing... once I realized what happened. Night and day. And it was so smooth and natural that I had no idea what happened until I was prompted by someone else's experience and thought about it.
And now I'm done processing the text and I am processing the audio. There's a Windows program I use during part of my audio processing phase, and the WINE loader got updated earlier. Apparently, it is now broken again, because instead of allowing me to simply select all of the audio files and load them with one click, it now tells me that the first one is fine, but it cannot find any of the others. There are dozens of audio files that I work with to make these things at this level of tech. And since I don't have time to do regression testing for the off chance that I might find one that works, I had to load all of these files one at a time, manually. Which really wouldn't be so bad, except that they're huge and slow to load and the load screen requires me to scroll to the side each time to see most of audio files.
But this didn't upset me nearly as much as it normally would have. I just kept going, and stayed on task, loaded them, and started the actual audio processing.
MM and 5.11G are working in ways that are hard to see, because it's so smooth and natural. But I'm much farther along than I would be otherwise because of PTPA.
Subliminal Audio Specialist & Administrator
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
