PlingStore error
Rick Murray (539) 13423 posts |
I started PlingStore, because the version of Ovation listed is old (v1.53) so I wanted to follow the link to my blog to know which page to tweak to point people to the latest version (v1.55). I didn’t create the entry, so I don’t have rights to modify it. Anyway, the catalogue shows the following:
(no name, no version) Opening the entry shows the size is “454KB”, price is “Free”, supplier is “Drag ’N Drop”, there’s a photo of a dark grey looking computer on the cover of an issue (resized to be square!?), and the “Get” button is active. Every other field is blank. Clicking on Get crashes PlingStore – the more info says “Unrecoverable error in runtime system: free failed, (heap overwritten)”. The catalogue contains this entry: AppID:222 Name: Supplier:45 <-- this is Drag 'N Drop Appsize:1189886 Demosize:465346 Version: Flags:0 ShortDesc: Price:0 Extra:0 Offer:0 UpgradePrice:0 Replaced:0 Url: Categories: I erased the catalogue file, so it had to be downloaded again and… same thing. So I’m guessing it isn’t just me? |
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Chris Johnson (125) 823 posts |
No, I saw the same thing a couple of days ago. I didn’t try and get it tho’. |
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Rick Murray (539) 13423 posts |
Ah, well that’s the difference between me and…….probably everybody else. :-) If it looks like an error and it walks like an error and quacks like an error, poke it with a stick to make sure. |
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Steve Pampling (1551) 7955 posts |
I bet you were a real bundle of five-year old fun with a paperclip and an electrical socket. |
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John Williams (567) 768 posts |
I remember quite vividly at perhaps 6 unscrewing the (wooden) pendant lightswitch above my mother’s bed where I was born and experiencing the magic of a 240v shock – or was it then 250v before the harmonisation process of the EU. But then I lived in a house that was originally wired for DC, I believe! Thank goodness for AC! |
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Chris Evans (457) 1614 posts |
When I was kid and in the top bunk under a pendant light, I’m told I fiddled with the cable and enjoyed the buzz it gave me! |
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Vince M Hudd (116) 527 posts |
I’m not told I enjoyed that – I know I did. It was only a very short one, though, so there wasn’t much to it, but what I usually tell people is that I got a buzz out of it. :) When I was ten or so, I took a shortcut over the bannister – not unusual. I slipped and grabbed the nearest thing I could: The pendant light. There was no bulb in it (and no shade), but it was switched on (probably because there were two switches, upstairs and downstairs, and someone was careless), and one of my fingers created a circuit. Gravity stopped me holding it for longer – if that weren’t so, I’m sure the buzz wouldn’t have continued to be enjoyable. Moving forward quite a few years, I remember one of my brothers having a game that gave little electric ‘shocks’ – IIRC, it was a reaction test; fastest reaction avoids the shock. The other players would say “ow” or similar and let go of the paddles when they lost. I had to deliberately lose in order to see how bad it was, and TBH I thought was just a tingle. The first time I did that and got the so-called shock, I didn’t react to it, and suggested my paddles weren’t working. So I switched places with someone else to test the theory. 8) But back to !Store: If you look at the b0rked entry, it appears to be issue 7i2 (IIRC). If you scroll back up and look at the actual issue, that entry is also not quite right – it’s file size is listed as 0. |
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Chris Johnson (125) 823 posts |
Aaaah – before H & S. Working with a large double focussing mass spectrometer for many years, I had a couple of 8kV belts that put me across the lab. I had a painful mains one when a teenager. The mains lead on my record deck needed lengthening so I had joined two lengths of mains cable and used the old fashioned insulating tape (the fabric type embedded with a tarry material). Of course, over the course of time it dried out, and running the mains lead through my hand one day, the dried out tape slid down the wire – the two exposed wires bit quite deeply into the flesh of one of my fingers – still see the scars faintly today, six decades on! |
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Clive Semmens (2335) 3135 posts |
I dismantled one of those dangling pendant light switches when I was about seven, and got a hell of a belt, and the light went out. That was in the evening. Parents thought I’d just turned the light off for the night as usual. In the morning, as soon as it was light, I very_carefully reassembled the thing, and managed to do it without giving myself another shock. Parents never knew. |