Playing can you top that (was Re: #5 on the list of Low Stress Jobs)

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Sounds like you had justifiable cause for janitor abuse. 

Problem with long-a** saves? How about long-a** compiles? I once did a Java help system, using FrameMaker to create the content files and then using first-generation WebWorks Publisher to condense a help system out of them. The help had more than 300 pages (not counting the TOC and index) and the content files all together were about 40MB. I was working on a machine that had 64 MB of RAM. It took more than 45 minutes to complete one compilation.


--- On Fri, 10/16/09, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:

> Some of us are so stressed that we long for the old days
> when the 
> biggest issue was merely a "Fatal Exception Error" that
> wiped out a 
> day's work.  Which reminds me of a time when I was
> doing graphics work 
> with a non-profit client's aging system that required about
> five minutes 
> to complete each save.  I avoided saving often and a
> janitor came by and 
> unplugged my computer so that he could use his
> vacuum.  I told him to 
> not do that and he, "It's OK."  It wasn't OK. 
> The last save was not 
> exactly usable and it took awhile for me to recreate my
> creative work.
> 
> Lauren
> 
> 
> 
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