lhiannan opened this issue on May 20, 2003 ยท 14 posts
lhiannan posted Tue, 20 May 2003 at 9:44 PM
While doing a drag-and-drop transfer between hard drives of my 5.5 gig project folder, the time suddenly jumped from 2 minutes to this!! A minute later, it jumped back to 30 seconds, but not before I got this screen capture :)
Gremalkyn posted Tue, 20 May 2003 at 9:52 PM
13,577.23- hours? 564 days? :-| These compu-thingies seem to do their own thing. My defrag of 80gb ran for a while, then shot from 1 hrm 27 min to 41 hr 9 min, then finished about 10 min later. Good thing it does not try to balance my accounts.
BeatYourSoul posted Tue, 20 May 2003 at 9:58 PM
This happens occasionally when transfering large amounts of data comprised of zillions (well, approximately) of small files. It's a weird Windows bug that usually is harmless, if not amusing. On occasion, though, it can herald the death of the transfer (usually across networks). Some other bugs that M$ hasn't worked out: 1. Deleting folders in Windows Explorer sometimes doesn't update the "Folders" panel in the display and requires it to be closed and rerun. You get a nasty dialog if you accidently click on the folder (as it no longer exists, despite what Explorer thinks). 2. The old and forgotten Internet Explorer HTML text bug seems to have crept back. During HTML page formatting, text is repeated on the next line that was already displayed. F5 (refresh) fixes it, but it is damned annoying. 3. Everything else about the OS... ;0) Windows XP Pro SP1 and Internet Explorer 6.0.2800. BYS
DarkElegance posted Tue, 20 May 2003 at 10:11 PM
LOL btw what is that wicked bg on there the white hiared charecter is cool looking
https://www.darkelegance.co.uk/
morbidpeeches posted Tue, 20 May 2003 at 10:29 PM
That's from Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, if I'm not mistaken. Fantastic game for the GBA... I'm currently trying to work on a fan-created character myself, in Poser.
Nance posted Tue, 20 May 2003 at 10:29 PM
Actually, your computer was just one of the few items I overlooked when I froze all time for everyone and everything in the universe for the previous 18 months. -- whoops!
lhiannan posted Tue, 20 May 2003 at 11:28 PM
Yes, that's from Castlevania. Very, very cool game :)] And believe or not, those who are not familiar with Castlevania, that figure in the pic is a man, Dracula himself, in fact.
morbidpeeches posted Tue, 20 May 2003 at 11:31 PM
Shh! You'll ruin it for the others! :P Although, I did like the twist, myself.
c1rcle posted Wed, 21 May 2003 at 2:03 AM
everyone's forgotten the most important question, where can we grab a copy of that background?
SAMS3D posted Wed, 21 May 2003 at 7:23 AM
That could be the biggest file transfer ever....you made history. Sharen
DarkElegance posted Wed, 21 May 2003 at 10:03 AM
that is dracula? or alucard?{either way yes where can we get a copy! lol} ;)
https://www.darkelegance.co.uk/
morbidpeeches posted Wed, 21 May 2003 at 11:29 AM
I'm not really too sure where to grab a copy big enough... but the Castlevania Dungeon has a few pictures for it: http://www.classicgaming.com/castlevania/aria/cv-aria.htm By the way, it IS Dracula. Alucard is also in the game, and no long has white hair.
lhiannan posted Wed, 21 May 2003 at 6:22 PM
Attached Link: http://www.konamityo.com/CV02/download/dl.html
Here is the link to Konami's site w/ the wallpaper. Note, this site is in Japanese.
FishNose posted Thu, 22 May 2003 at 8:16 AM
The worst I've seen when copying 80GB of stuff from one HD to another was something is the region of '62945725982 minutes remaining' or so. Sort of a hysterical reaction from Windows meaning "I haven't a CLUE how long this is going to take." :] Fish