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1  2:34am 22/10/06        
Intergalactic "Hide and Seek" Champion
When just as you finish a long post... and you cut it from this box to spellcheck it...

[SIZE=5]YOUR %$^#ing COMPUTER RANDOMLY RESTARTS[/SIZE]

Half a second before you paste it into word and save your progress?







Well that just happened to me.



I am furious. And there is nothing I can do about it.



*bangs head against wall over and over.*
2  2:40am 22/10/06        
Minister of Defence
I just write it all in word first. And save it as I go along. Though copy and pasting into TRF can be annoying as you can randomly lose words and gain extra spacing lines and such.

But that really really sucks, and I sympathize.
3  2:50am 22/10/06        
fuck that duck
spel cheker? wft?
[size=1]"So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck.”
-Mitch Hedberg
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4  3:09am 22/10/06        
Blink If You Can Hear Me
Yeah, I write everything in Word. I suck at remembering to save it, and thankfully Word autosaves. Word also caches shit, so, say you go a long time without saving, or open a new document and never save, and then crash, if you open Word when you restart, the stuff you lost pops up, ready to be saved. Word is the best thing a writer can spend money on, bar none.
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5  5:07am 22/10/06        
Internaut
You're all treating the symptom. The real thing we should be discussing is, why does Brutus' computer randomly restart?
6  6:49am 22/10/06        
Intergalactic "Hide and Seek" Champion
I know I should write in word.

But for some, inexplicable reason I "write better" on the forum.

Yeah, I know, I'm crazy. But writing in word... seems harder to me. Its a mental thing, I guess, as I associate word with high school/college papers... and not rp, which I enjoy writing.

So, I run this risk.


The sad thing is, I remember how my post went- it just seems like sucha waste of time to re-write it. i want to have an easy button that make it come back written, so I have to do no work. Sadly this is not going to happen.

Tomorrow I will suck it up, and do it all over again.
7  3:50pm 22/10/06        
fuck that duck
Try changing word to a black background and white font. :)

I write to the forum generally, too... and I have this habit of hitting escape, which jumps me back to the previous page.


Write in word. ;)
[size=1]"So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck.”
-Mitch Hedberg
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8  8:14pm 22/10/06        
Bounty Hunter
Bad habbits are hard to habbit.
9  1:05pm 23/10/06        
Dis aliter visum. <br>IQ Rating: 140
I use Word. I hate having to rewrite something especially if it's already finished.
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10  5:13am 24/10/06        
Admin - New Republican - VC Magnate - Reasonable Redcoat
Oh man...that sucks...

I feel your pain, I really do.

God knows how many posts during CoC were lost due to random computer restarts and other errors.

I learnt the hard way; Word and save, Word and save, its now my mantra...

...that and; 'no more commas, no more commas...

(I'm, still, working, on, that,)

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