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    Quote Originally Posted by BuffCyclist View Post
    Gotta fully wake myself up for this phone conference so I can explain and justify the problems I was having this shift which generated tons of mailing list emails, involving lots of people on their holiday weekend, and it turns out the laptop just needed to be rebooted...
    oops

    'puters do funny things

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    So, we at war yet with a new country? No time to read the news...

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    Quote Originally Posted by roberth View Post
    oops

    'puters do funny things
    Yea, well our software has a serious memory leak, so if you don't restart the laptop every 2-3 days, the program gets up to 5-6gb RAM and starts acting all wonky. We restarted it my first night, and it was down at 300mb RAM, so I didn't think to restart it or even check it.

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    I have no idea what they're talking about

    SecDef is talking about Syria now.
    Just doing what I can to stay on this side of the dirt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BuffCyclist View Post
    Ridge, you play Kerbal Space Program or just liked the gif?
    I've played it a couple times. Managed to get my guys in orbit on the 3rd or 4th try. But I love that gif, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BuffCyclist View Post
    So, we at war yet with a new country? No time to read the news...
    not yet

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ridge View Post
    I've played it a couple times. Managed to get my guys in orbit on the 3rd or 4th try. But I love that gif, too.
    Sweet! I tried getting into it, but it was extremely difficult to understand what was going on. I tried looking at the wiki for a tutorial/help. After a few hours, I finally found the pre-loaded ships and was able to understand the game more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BuffCyclist View Post
    Yea, well our software has a serious memory leak, so if you don't restart the laptop every 2-3 days, the program gets up to 5-6gb RAM and starts acting all wonky. We restarted it my first night, and it was down at 300mb RAM, so I didn't think to restart it or even check it.
    could your tech build a scheduled task to execute "shutdown -r" every 2 days?

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    Probably, it's a MacBook Pro 13" and only runs the control software. They don't see it as a problem though, other than when the memory leak gets too big, the program is unresponsive and can freeze telescope motion. If we have to close in an emergency situation (incoming snow/rain storm) and it freezes, we're boned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BuffCyclist View Post
    Sweet! I tried getting into it, but it was extremely difficult to understand what was going on. I tried looking at the wiki for a tutorial/help. After a few hours, I finally found the pre-loaded ships and was able to understand the game more.
    Yeah, I basically got a capsule, put a decoupler on it, put a huge fuel tank underneath, and then a big ass engine under that.