From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

And any program such as this ray tracing one, which run for long time,
should check for system shutdown messages that are dispatched to all
processes when winoze is shutting down, and save the work to a disk...


Antti Kurenniemi
"Gary Britt"  wrote in message news:4450d950$1{at}w3....
>I agree with all of that, but if this guy is going to re-run this huge
>calculation, then he should be prudent and unplug the network connection,
>make sure he as a great UPS that will keep the thing going from the time he
>leaves work till the time he gets back the next day, maybe use a macro
>program like "macro express" to periodically save the work as it goes
>along.
>
> Prudence is good, because Murphy's law will always kick in on something
> like this.
>
> Gary
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message news:44509a21$1{at}w3....
>>A power failure is an accident, a reboot after an auto update is not an
>> accident. A reboot after an unannounced off schedule auto update that
>> brings
>> more copy protection to your machine is not an accident and not even
>> required and certainly could have waited for the normal update cycle.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:44503a96{at}w3....
>>> Well the lesson from that one is unplug the network connection on a
>> computer
>>> that needs to calculate a single project for 2 weeks without saving its
>> work
>>> at intermediary points.  Was this computer on a solid UPS?  Of course
>>> I'm
>>> not saying its alright for MS to reboot somebody's computer without
>>> their
>>> explicit permission, just saying count on stuff like that going wrong
>> during
>>> any kind of long unsaved process.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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