I once deliberately fired up Java 6 (browser plugin varient) in heavily nanny-filtered* IE7 on one of my schools old IIs (yes, they still use the old PIIs in a few labs, and a surprising number of P IIIs. About the most modern things outside of the two modern(ish) labs are Celeron Ds), running XP Pro....to see if you could actually play minecraft on it. Not surprisingly, it didn't end well. Surprisingly, the computer neither died, nor completely crashed...ThePrivateer wrote:It's not up to us to determine what is or isn't permanent damage or what may be classed as bad damage by an individual. Whilst I agree that any lasting or permanent damage is almost impossible, it's a good practice to provide a legal escape clause for us. You never know if you'll get some person, in the future who has a computer crash because he used a dodgy mod and comes looking for someone to accuse. So for that reason, Xelerus ought to have the Disclaimer page and I figured it would be useful to have a quick one here as well.Drako Slyith wrote:For example tell the game spawn a ship with the ship xml saying it is escorted by itself.Bobby wrote:Mods can crash / lock up the computer under certain conditions. You may lose unsaved data but no permanent damage.
I tried that. I imagine pandora's box looked kind of like that when it was opened. Absolute chaos until the game crashes. >.>Drako Slyith wrote:Not really
That means the ship is escorted by itself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself who is himself escorted by himself on and on forever. For some reason the computer can't compute infinity...Code: Select all
<ShipClass="&scShip;"... <Escorts> <Ship count="1" class="&scShip;" orders="escort"/> </Escorts> </ShipClass>
On that train of thought I will also add that a crashed application that then goes on to freeze up some guy's old Windows 98 Pentium II, which then blows up the old CPU and means he can't work until he fixes it is another (unlikely) disaster scenario.
*To the point where PDF downloads/reading isn't allowed, the schools own email service was blocked for the first week and a half of school, and the categories of banned sites include 'humor', 'Politics' and 'Freeware/shareware' [what the heck?]...the proxy system also seriously degrades browser performance.
