13 February 2008

Stack Overload Error

Today is do or die. Today is the last day for building wings. I opened up urza this morning and looked at what Omid had accomplished in the night after our meeting in ASH (in which I discovered to my great sorrow that the stylus for the 9x12 Wacom tablet was missing). After loading the appropriate library so that the code would progress past the first line, my computer had a bit of a conniption fit, and only recovered after I had closed all instances of the Processing IDE.

The day before I had written the infamous infinite loop and unleashed the mother of all stack-overload errors on my laptop. My memory was eaten up in a second, allowing not even the task manager to start up (I have a huge complaint with how the task manager is arranged in Vista... why would you put it in some special screen that probably takes up far more memory than it should?). In this instance the limit of my knowledge of computer programming was put in sharp relief. I can't help Omid at all, and neither can George. We have to wait and see what happens. I cannot even see the progress as the code can't run on my computer (yet it does on the Macs in ASH).

I'm in over my head.

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