Defibrillator for stalled software
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 13:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Its happened to everyone: Youre using a familiar piece of software to do something youve done a thousand times before say, find a particular word in a document and all of a sudden the program just stops working. You click the cursor and move the mouse, but nothing changes on-screen, and finally you just quit the program, losing whatever work youd done since the last time you saved.