Silinde

I'm going to cheat a little.

eXodus - Darius Rucker

Michelson Morley

Hey, it works!

YYZ -- Rush

YYZ is the airport code for Pierson Airport in Toronto, which is where they are from. That percussion bit at the beginning of the song spells out Y-Y-Z in Morse code.

Violent Delights

It sounds right.

Hey, that’s cool. I didn’t know that.

Zimzalabim - Red Velvet

Silinde

Ambiramus - Eluveitie

Michelson Morley

Back in Time -- Huey Lewis & The News

Silinde

^ New one.

Ceremony - New Order

Michelson Morley

Whoops, I put that last one in the wrong thread. Not going back to fix it now.

Derezzed -- Daft Punk

Back in 1985, we received at work the Sun Microsystems catalog for that year, and we saw that the price for a 4 megabyte memory board had dropped to $3995. We had a lunch that day to celebrate the fact that the price of memory had dropped to under $1000 per megabyte. I bought a 128 gigabyte flash drive last night for $20, so the price of that memory now is about $0.00015 per megabyte.

Silinde

Yeah, it's incredible how much even in my time the standards for memory size have changed. And how companies invest in too little,still. I yesterday worked "all night" until 3 to split a big Excel into smaller ones and use formulas, then save result values to avoid the formula's "firing again" b/c my PC didn't have enough.
You'd think they would make sure personnel has good equipment, b/c the salaries are costlier than the hardware. They'll learn, some day.

Everybody - Madonna

Michelson Morley

So that's why you were up late last night. I ran into the same problem a few years ago. I had a big CSV file of logged real-time system data that I needed to do some analysis on. Trying to import it locked up Excel, because the laptop I had then didn't have enough memory. I had to jump through hoops to split the file into several pieces (a task that would have been very easy to do on a Linux system). Even after I did that, the pieces were large enough so that the import took about 10 minutes, and then Excel was very slow after it loaded. I needed to filter some columns and it took several minutes every time I changed a filter setting.

The problem didn't get solved until a year later, when I got a laptop refresh. They don't intend these laptops to be used for things like that, or for software development -- they are pretty much for general word processing and accounting. In fact, they are trying to move everyone to a thin-client setup, which would make a lot of the things I do impossible.

Fade --- Alan Walker

Silinde

Faded ^

And yes, that's why I was still up. Sorry to hear you had a similar experience. It ***** big time.

Generous - Amber Mark

Michelson Morley

You're right; I'll fix it.

People from my generation put a lot of effort into working around memory problems, back in the day. That's one reason we wrote so much code in assembly language; it was the most memory-efficient.

Hereafter -- Dixie Dregs

Violent Delights

Ignition - Trivium

Michelson Morley

Jailbreak -- Thin Lizzy

Silinde

Jaded - Aerosmith

Michelson Morley

Kuiama -- Electric Light Orchestra