OT: "take-up of netbooks has been staggering"

[Kay C Lan]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:


> People
> think Notes is just email but it's far more.  It's a distributed document
> database.  So I store PDFs, web pages, code, executables, stacks (versioned
> with annotations), etc. all in Notes.


Bernard,

This is off topic to this topic but I'm just catching up on a 100 odd List
posts and was reading your drama regarding crashing Rev, and having been in
a similar situation where mine kept crashing but everyone else's worked
happily I too agree with those that there is something with 'your peculiar
situation' which is the cause of the problem. Not necessarily Rev, the OS,
plug-ins, but a combination of the lot.

So the fact that you have stacks going into and out of Notes strikes me as
peculiar. Does Notes compress and uncompress? Is it UTF-8 or UTF-16? What
about encryption? Is there any possibility that the process of inputting and
outputting stack files changes just one character within the stack file and
that this then has a fatal effect on Rev? Maybe numToChar(29) or
numToChar(30) and Notes produces results that upsets certain Rev plug-ins?

Glad to see you are enjoying some stability on OSX at the moment. Hope it's
contagious ;-)