Only about 47,166 days remaining. Unfreeze me when it's over

[DaJe]

So to make some space on my hard drive (it's 400GB, but I still need space), I decided to compress my Windows.Old folder. It's nice to have a backup of all of my old files, but I don't really access it much. So I figure I might as well compress it. And some of the stuff is from my brother, when I let him borrow my computer for his audio production while he was waiting for a piece of equipment to be replaced.


The only problem is that it's going to take over 129 years to compress it, according to Windows' first calculation.

http://codeinsurrection.com/pics/whatthe****compress.jpg


I don't feel like watching until then, so just unfreeze me once it's over. And what a surprise, it says "Not Responding" >_>

[DaveW]

hahahaha...fruit loops dude. :)

-Dave

[crenn]

Maybe it's dividing by zero and creating a time paradox...

[DaJe]

Speaking of dividing by zero, that has actually happened in the real world


http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_world.shtml


"This story was told by people from Motorola and is supposedly included in every microcontroller training course Motorola gives.

Test flights of F-16's were being conducted in Israel. The F-16's were doing low height rounds. On approach to the Dead Sea, the whole navigation system suddenly reset itself. The daring pilot landed the bird. HQ called up Motorola and ordered a team on the spot ASAP. The ground tests went perfectly, but every time the bird went airborn, it rebooted.

The pilots were getting restless. Flying on the border of hostile territory without navcom, with the Arabs pointing their earth-to-air missiles at anything that moves, wasn't that pleasant. Neither was debugging the whole navcom in-flight. Then someone figured it out.

The height of the Dead Sea relative to world sea level is -400 meters. As soon as the F-16 reached sea level, the navcom did a divide by zero, crashed, and rebooted."

[crenn]

lol +rep!

[DaJe]

Uh oh, Avast detected a virus in one of the files being compressed. Makes sense, seeing as my brother gave me the nastiest worm I've ever seen by using his friends external hard drive.

[xRyokenx]

Yeah, a virus could really mess things up... not fun. Well, that's a little better than my brother's fragmented hard drive, that thing had like pixel wide lines all throughout it, and he wondered why it clicked when it searched for files, lol... took like a day to fix as his lappy is old.

[si-skyline]

umm i dont think windows understands if it wants to do it in that time then the hard drive prob would of died by then xD

[DaJe]

I think my hard drive might die much sooner anyway. Diskeeper always tells me worrysome things about it. Last night it finally said the overall health of the volume was critical, and that the master file table was actually more than full. I'll have to do some maintenance.

[XcOM]

younormally needto leave 10% of a HDD fre for the overhead, otherwise critical HDD proplems can arise.