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Applications that lose data if they are unable to write to disk (but they were able to load information fine)

Wed, 01/31/2007 - 01:34 — admin
Average: 2.4 (5 votes)

Several applications do not handle a situation where your disk is current fully or becomes read-only, such as NFS situations or your laptop running out of space, this isnt such a big issue as the user can avoid it however it DOES happen, applications such as firefox will loose all of your browsing history (why not just not add any history? I cant see why it would throw out your previous set),

MySQL will give you an "error 28" when there are too many files in /tmp.

Earlier versions of KDE/KDM would get stuck into a KDM crashing loop and you had to reboot

Im sure there are more.

Surely these applications could be written better?

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Sun, 03/30/2008 - 23:26 — admin

nicotine (soulseek client)

nicotine (soulseek client) is another one of these, not much fun when you download lots of stuff, fill up your local harddrive and then nicotine looses your config/username/password :(*

Sun, 11/09/2008 - 22:38 — Ada (not verified)

It all depends on the

It all depends on the hardware that your laptop has as well. I have to admit that, for me, the most annoying thing is that when the disk is current fully or becomes read-only my printer is not recognized anymore, even if it’s installed.