On Wednesday 28 April 2004 03:57 pm, Jensen, Mark P. wrote:
1. Lack of complaints doesn't mean that he problem is rare. I have consistently seen this behavior (run either Artemis or Athena) on 3 different Windows NT/Win 2000 (incidently 128 Mb RAM) machines. I recall pointing it out to Bruce many moons ago, and just accepting it as the way things were.
I am embarassed to say that I do not remember discussing this with you at all. Sigh! Apparently there is a severly limited number of problems that I can keep in my little brain at any given time. When enough new ones show up, the old ones get squeezed out like tooth paste. One solution to this problem is to have a web based bug tracker that people can submit their bug reports to. This wouldn't necessarily result in faster fixes, but it might help my memory problems. I don't really have access to a machine where I could set one up, but if someone wanted to volunteer, that would be great. Mark, if you are so motivated and your memory is configured in an appropriate way, it would be interesting run your tests with variable amounts of memory in the computer and let us know the results. It would also be interesting to know how the behavior of A&A changes depending on what other programs you have running at the time. (That is, can you only open both programs if Word is not running on an XYZ Mb machine?) As for splitting the list into xafs and software tracks, that's not a bad idea. It's not obvious that the volume is really so high (and it certainly is not noisy enough) that this is completely necessary, but there is nothing wrong with the notion. I must say, though, that I am thrilled that so much traffic lately has been about the practice of xafs rather than the bugs in my crappy software. To my mind, that is the ideal use of the mailing list. I found both the substrate and k-range threads to be very interesting. B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/