[postgis-users] Windows Crash

[Chris Hermansen]

Regina, all;

I read the top four articles on this blog and I guess I just don't 
understand why someone would waste their valuable (?) time writing such 
pointless material, whether the topic be Windows or Linux or OS/X or 
whatever.

Obe, Regina wrote:
> Slightly off topic.  Has anyone seen this Linux Haters Blog.  All 
> Linux users should read it to understand how the mind of a windows 
> user works so that we can interoperate.
>  
> http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/
>  
> Similarly I would like to see a windows haters blog so I can form a 
> fully unbiased opinion of the various factions.  Is there such a thing?
>
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> *From:* postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] *On Behalf Of 
> *Bruce Rindahl
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:53 PM
> *To:* PostGIS Users Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] Windows Crash
>
> Also on a long shot - do you have any hardware conflicts?
> Start->Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager
> Are there any little yellow info symbols?
> Bruce
>
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> This is in no way a PostGIS problem, certainly nothing we can ever
>> fix, just something that the particular combination of PgAdmin, the
>> geometry we are feeding it, and the way the Windows rendering system
>> are interacting.
>>
>> My experience has been that these days the thing that causes a modern
>> operating system (Windows, Linux, whatever) to crash is bad hardware,
>> usually bad memory, but sometimes other things. Basically, the
>> operating system itself is usually rock solid until you shake the
>> foundations it sits on, the hardware.
>>
>> So basically, all I can offer is the doctor's advice to the patient
>> who said "doctor, doctor, it hurts when I raise my arm over my
>> head!"... "don't raise your arm over your head".
>>
>> In the meantime, if you want to fiddle with things, swapping the order
>> of your memory in the sockets, changing out the video card, even
>> changing your screen resolution, might change the interaction such
>> that you can exercise this particular use case without dropping your
>> OS to the floor.
>>
>> P.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Obe, Regina <robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov> wrote:
>>   
>>> I second Bruce's comment about unhelpful comments.
>>>
>>> It may actually have nothing to do with Windows in fact.
>>>
>>> Now getting back to the crash issue.  Bob if you are still having the same
>>> issue with that file, maybe you can post that (or provide a link to the
>>> shape file you loaded).  It could be something to do with the shapefile.
>>>
>>> I recall having this same issue with one particular geometry file way back
>>> in PgAdmin 1.6 and it was when I scrolled to a specific record it would
>>> crash, but then later additions (I either maybe never selected the geometry
>>> field again) or it was fixed in later versions.  Doing an AsText
>>> always seemed to work where as displaying the raw binary was where I ran
>>> into issues.
>>>
>>> The other possibility is that it could be a defective graphics card. I
>>> forget which video cards I had bad runs with, but I remember having this
>>> same exact issue with my favorite programming editor JEdit.  I had 2
>>> identical computers with same drivers etc and for some reason I would get
>>> intermittent crashes on one of them.  I finally just got fed up and replaced
>>> the graphics card and then it worked fine.
>>>
>>> Just some thoughts.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Regina
>>>
>>>
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