Critical Error!

[Kilby]

That was all that was in the BKP forum window.

I don't think that my employers would be too happy at me posting a screenshot which had a lots of our RAS server and firewall main configs visible.

Then again once you work some Cisco error messages and operating systems that simply reboot when things go wrong. Sparse is a lot better than nothing at all (but not a lot)

[CaffeineJunkie]

That was all that was in the BKP forum window.

I don't think that my employers would be too happy at me posting a screenshot which had a lots of our RAS server and firewall main configs visible.

Then again once you work some Cisco error messages and operating systems that simply reboot when things go wrong. Sparse is a lot better than nothing at all (but not a lot)

don't ya just miss the robust exception information in coldfusion :D, sometimes i wonder why all languages don't give that level of detail about errors which occur

[Kilby]

don't ya just miss the robust exception information in coldfusion :D, sometimes i wonder why all languages don't give that level of detail about errors which occur

I'm afriad all my web experience comes from vi, ultraedit, apache, mysql PERL & PHP. I guess old (low level) coding habits never die (hence I ran away from coding & scripting)

Though that it did produce a helpdesk system, discussion board and a flickr like image gallery for our users. Funny enough though we did include proper error messages for the users to quote us when things went wrong (too lazy to look up the server logs you see)

I'm still wondering why I was the only one who commented on the errors though (oh yeah the main site seemed to be fine)

[CaffeineJunkie]

lol, nah i've not gone into low-level stuff yet, lowest i've gone is dabbling in c++ [although it was a pretty pathetic dabble at best]... should be doing some good stuff at uni though, can't wait :D ... just gotta get through my preparatory reading list now lol

[Ol]

Unfortunately I only just checked back so didn't get a chance to check the logs before wipeout. Can you PM me next time and I'll be quicker off the mark. Clearly the Force is faultering! :-)

Ol

Errr, this occured on me @ 12:47 (appx) and it was still occuring @ 12:55 (then I had to go awzay and actually work)

Clipped :
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phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database
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[ToneMonkey]

lol, nah i've not gone into low-level stuff yet, lowest i've gone is dabbling in c++ [although it was a pretty pathetic dabble at best]... should be doing some good stuff at uni though, can't wait :D ... just gotta get through my preparatory reading list now lol

I'm glad my days of C++ are gone.  In the past I've done MATLAB, C++, C with a C++ complier, FORTRAN, Visual Basic as well as some others that I've put out of my mind.  Hated every single one.  Programing definately wasn't for me.

Which uni you going to and what you doing dude?

[CaffeineJunkie]

lol, nah i've not gone into low-level stuff yet, lowest i've gone is dabbling in c++ [although it was a pretty pathetic dabble at best]... should be doing some good stuff at uni though, can't wait :D ... just gotta get through my preparatory reading list now lol

I'm glad my days of C++ are gone.  In the past I've done MATLAB, C++, C with a C++ complier, FORTRAN, Visual Basic as well as some others that I've put out of my mind.  Hated every single one.  Programing definately wasn't for me.

Which uni you going to and what you doing dude?

Uni of York, doing a MEng in Computer Systems and Software Engineering :D

i can't believe that you didn't like visual basic though, it's so simple, and although you don't get a huge amount of control over things like memory addresses and stuff, it's still a pretty fast language to build something in... particularly if you're just after a tool or add-in piece of software :D

[Kilby]

NP I will PM if I get that happening again.

Fraid I'm older than that and loved Watcom C, and gcc

The only use for VB (or Delphi) is for prototyping something for a real language.

I don't even live Visual C as you simply don't know whats going on under the covers (I guess I'm a control freak). Hence I have still been known to hack the odd windows app in Assembly (just to keep my hand in)

[ToneMonkey]

Typically, I ahven't had the error since starting this post.  The forum has timed out a couple of times this morning though when I tried to load it up  

CJ - I didn't like any form of programming.  There were people on my course that loved it, but it certainly wasn't for me.  If you can't hit it with a hammer, it isn't propper engineering  8)   I used to live with aguy taht did a very similar course to you.  It was essentially a BAE course called Signals and Systems at Loughborough.

[CaffeineJunkie]

Typically, I ahven't had the error since starting this post.  The forum has timed out a couple of times this morning though when I tried to load it up  

CJ - I didn't like any form of programming.  There were people on my course that loved it, but it certainly wasn't for me.  If you can't hit it with a hammer, it isn't propper engineering  8)   I used to live with aguy taht did a very similar course to you.  It was essentially a BAE course called Signals and Systems at Loughborough.

nah the idea of this course is that it's a 'standard' computer science degree for the 18 months, then i can choose what i want to specialise in for the 4th and 5th years [most likely quantum computing or advanced research topics]

the joy of this method of running the course is that they attack computing from bottom-up and top-down, so we learn the electronics side of things, ie building CPUs and chipsets, and how different parts affect the end result, and stuff like machine code/assembly language etc. - but at the same time we learn algorithmics, databases and programming techniques for the higher-level stuff. Because of this, once we start to specialise, we've all had a taste in most of the different areas of computing, and can decide which we prefer

:D

[ToneMonkey]

quantum computing

Now we're talking up my street.