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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #30 on: September 05, 2010, 07:48:26 pm »
54. Press MODE, ALPHA, S, ENTER, and ENTER to start the self-test.


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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #31 on: September 05, 2010, 09:11:47 pm »
On the TI-89:

55. Go to the home screen, press f5, diamond, clear, catalog, enter ;)


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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #32 on: September 05, 2010, 09:51:16 pm »
56. Make sure to play around with fake Mem Clear applications and hit the Reset All button.

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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #33 on: September 05, 2010, 09:52:45 pm »
That happened to me on my Nspire 84 keypad :)

(the only thing was, that it had good results, as I did not have to go through the trouble of deleting all of TI's useless apps :P)


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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #34 on: September 06, 2010, 11:02:47 am »
56. Make sure to play around with fake Mem Clear applications and hit the Reset All button.

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I had that happen to me while I was testing my own fake reset app. Luckily enough it was my only project at the time :P

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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #35 on: September 07, 2010, 02:38:21 am »
What was the problem occuring with BrandonW's fake mem clear? Did it just actually RAM clear for real?

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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #36 on: September 07, 2010, 02:49:00 am »
It hid all the programs, making it appear like they were lost

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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #37 on: September 07, 2010, 02:57:41 am »
oh ok x.x

Weird. What would be the way around that? (Besides CalcSys)

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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #38 on: September 07, 2010, 08:30:33 am »
What was the problem occuring with BrandonW's fake mem clear? Did it just actually RAM clear for real?
Well, what happened with me was, I enabled the Fake app, then fake reset ram. Then I restored the "lost" programs. After that, I tried Reset All, unaware that I had to enable the Fake app again. :(
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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #39 on: September 07, 2010, 12:19:07 pm »
Ouch x.x. Yeah sometimes it's great to know some stuff in advance when coding. One thing I wish I knew when I coded Illusiat 2002 is that MirageOS 1.1 took 4 hours to sort 90 sub-programs, that lowercases were 2 byte tokens and that disabling the sorting option was a bad idea for your archive.

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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #40 on: September 07, 2010, 07:07:24 pm »
#56: Self-testing is completely safe and actually helps you get rid of data corruption.




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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #41 on: September 07, 2010, 07:15:38 pm »
MirageOS 1.1 took 4 hours to sort 90 sub-programs

Whaaat?  really?  That is just no good at all :(

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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #42 on: September 07, 2010, 07:37:57 pm »
WOW 1.2's a lot faster, thankfully :)
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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #43 on: September 07, 2010, 07:46:49 pm »
I think it might have something to do with the fact that its not just sorting a regular list like us programmers are used to, but it has elements that are different sizes because of different program names, and it has to make room for them all in order to sort them all around.

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Re: 42 ways to prevent a project from dying due to data losses
« Reply #44 on: September 07, 2010, 08:22:34 pm »
MirageOS 1.1 took 4 hours to sort 90 sub-programs

Whaaat?  really?  That is just no good at all :(
Yeah the sorting algorithm was not suitable for large lists of programs. It was much faster than 1.2 with 3 or 4 prog but otherwise it was insane. I was stuck with 1.1 for 3 years. I was so happy when 1.2 came out (although now I use Doors)