ned Productions Consulting


Technology musings by Niall Douglas
ned Productions Consulting
(an expert advice and services company based in Ireland)


Thursday 14th February 2013 5.29am

Just waiting around for an automated solver I wrote to solve BB10 system memory usage to finish. It basically throws statistical pattern matching at the problem of discovering what uses what resources, and it is not quick (not helped by me writing it in Python). Annoyingly, my work laptop has been crunching it for nearly twelve hours now and during that time BlackBerry pushed critical updates at it, and now it wants to reboot and keeps counting down to auto reboot which would lose me the results of all those hours of data crunching. So I have to hang around hitting the "don't reboot" button. Which sucks, because I'd really like to sleep …