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At this very instant, my PC is running a QEMU virtual machine running
the Windows XP installation procedure (which now has only "37 minute
remaining"), a ping monitor that's counting the number of packets
dropped between the UK and HQ, Outlook 2003, Word 2003, Thunderbird
(obviously!), and just to top it off, Firefox is open on a page full of
dancing Flash animations.
I need a more powerful machine. Or maybe just a spare machine to run all
the other stuff on... The virtual machine installation has been going
for about 2 hours so far. Hmm, maybe I should run the ping monitor from
the server, so it's always active? I'd need to improve the logging though...
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Invisible wrote:
> QEMU virtual machine running
> the Windows XP installation procedure (which now has only "37 minute
> remaining")
Only "24 minutes" now - yay!
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Invisible wrote:
> Only "24 minutes" now - yay!
"19 minutes"... these are the longest minutes EVER! :-/
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Invisible wrote:
> "19 minutes"... these are the longest minutes EVER! :-/
"16 minutes" - yes, Yes, YES!!
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Invisible wrote:
> "16 minutes" - yes, Yes, YES!!
Only "6 minutes" to go now... heh. Can you tell how interesting this isn't?
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Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> QEMU virtual machine running the Windows XP installation procedure
>> (which now has only "37 minute remaining")
>
> Only "24 minutes" now - yay!
I like the time left shown for copy in Windows - or a install.
3 minutes remaining
10 minutes remaining
4 hours remaining
2 days remaining
1 day remaining
2 minutes remaining
10 seconds remaining
15 seconds remaining
done
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Tom Austin wrote:
> I like the time left shown for copy in Windows - or a install.
>
> 3 minutes remaining
> 10 minutes remaining
> 4 hours remaining
> 2 days remaining
> 1 day remaining
> 2 minutes remaining
> 10 seconds remaining
> 15 seconds remaining
> done
I remember when progress bars used to tell you how long something would
take. Now it seems fashionable for the bar to instantly fill to 99%, and
then lock up for 20 minutes or something. And how many programs have you
seen where the bar repeatedly fills and empties, seemingly at random? Hmm?
My God... I'm old! o_O
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Invisible wrote:
> Only "6 minutes" to go now... heh. Can you tell how interesting this isn't?
The installer completed. Huzzah!
Now just got to wait for the backup process to complete, and then I can
run the user setup wizzard. Yay me...? :-/
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Invisible wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
>
>> I like the time left shown for copy in Windows - or a install.
>>
>> 3 minutes remaining
>> 10 minutes remaining
>> 4 hours remaining
>> 2 days remaining
>> 1 day remaining
>> 2 minutes remaining
>> 10 seconds remaining
>> 15 seconds remaining
>> done
>
> I remember when progress bars used to tell you how long something would
> take. Now it seems fashionable for the bar to instantly fill to 99%, and
> then lock up for 20 minutes or something. And how many programs have you
> seen where the bar repeatedly fills and empties, seemingly at random? Hmm?
>
> My God... I'm old! o_O
On some recent installs I watched the progress bar fill up and start
over - again and again....
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>> I remember when progress bars used to tell you how long something
>> would take. Now it seems fashionable for the bar to instantly fill to
>> 99%, and then lock up for 20 minutes or something. And how many
>> programs have you seen where the bar repeatedly fills and empties,
>> seemingly at random? Hmm?
>>
>> My God... I'm old! o_O
>
>
> On some recent installs I watched the progress bar fill up and start
> over - again and again....
One of the more amusing things I've seen in my career is the Outlook
2000 installer. When you install it, the progress bar slowly fills up
(multiple times). But when you uninstall it, the bar starts full and
gradually empties instead!
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"Tom Austin" <taustin> wrote in message news:48d24a3c$1@news.povray.org...
> Invisible wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> QEMU virtual machine running the Windows XP installation procedure
>>> (which now has only "37 minute remaining")
>>
>> Only "24 minutes" now - yay!
>
>
> I like the time left shown for copy in Windows - or a install.
>
I had a copy yesterday (copying from a shadow copy 'previous version'), that
said it would take 65782 years to complete. I went to get coffee and it was
done by the time I got back.
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Gail wrote:
> I had a copy yesterday (copying from a shadow copy 'previous version'),
> that said it would take 65782 years to complete. I went to get coffee
> and it was done by the time I got back.
LOL!
That's just *advanced*! I've never seen it get it quite that wrong...
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On 18-Sep-08 16:26, Invisible wrote:
> Gail wrote:
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>> I had a copy yesterday (copying from a shadow copy 'previous
>> version'), that said it would take 65782 years to complete. I went to
>> get coffee and it was done by the time I got back.
>
> LOL!
>
> That's just *advanced*! I've never seen it get it quite that wrong...
I did, even negative times. It happens when people count the number of
bytes to copy in 32 bit integers, or something like that.
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andrel nous illumina en ce 2008-09-18 19:31 -->
> On 18-Sep-08 16:26, Invisible wrote:
>> Gail wrote:
>>
>>> I had a copy yesterday (copying from a shadow copy 'previous
>>> version'), that said it would take 65782 years to complete. I went to
>>> get coffee and it was done by the time I got back.
>>
>> LOL!
>>
>> That's just *advanced*! I've never seen it get it quite that wrong...
>
> I did, even negative times. It happens when people count the number of
> bytes to copy in 32 bit integers, or something like that.
Or take the time it took for a single, huge, file, and multiply that by the
number of files left to process, with an average size of less than 10K...
--
Alain
-------------------------------------------------
Coming soon: Windows for Nintendo!
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:48d2652b@news.povray.org...
> Gail wrote:
>
>> I had a copy yesterday (copying from a shadow copy 'previous version'),
>> that said it would take 65782 years to complete. I went to get coffee and
>> it was done by the time I got back.
>
> LOL!
>
> That's just *advanced*! I've never seen it get it quite that wrong...
I suspect it had something to do with the copy coming from the shadow copy.
Usually I get fairly 'accurate' time estimates on copying.
I say fairly, cause Vista spends the first half of the copy calculating the
time and hence when it finally does give a time it's reasonably accurate
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Gail wrote:
>
> I had a copy yesterday (copying from a shadow copy 'previous version'),
> that said it would take 65782 years to complete. I went to get coffee
> and it was done by the time I got back.
And your boss won't complain that you're taking too long coffee breaks?
Can I come to work there too?
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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Invisible wrote:
> One of the more amusing things I've seen in my career is the Outlook
> 2000 installer. When you install it, the progress bar slowly fills up
> (multiple times). But when you uninstall it, the bar starts full and
> gradually empties instead!
All MSI-based installers do that when rolling back an installation (if it
fails halfway, once you close the error message it undoes what it did and
the progressbar goes backwards). But I never saw it on an uninstaller...
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