So this is going to be random but here I go. I was in my wireless networking class waiting for my over caffeinated teacher to stop fucking running around and come check our work (I work in a group) and while we were waiting my group partner who seems to have a fascination with the word “penis”, decides to copy and paste 1000 lines of the word penis in notepad. That wouldn’t have been too bad if he had not held down “ctrl+v”(for non techies that is paste) for around five minutes…

Ten minutes later we are looking at what can only be described as “lol-tastic” because notepad, the lightest text editor compared to linux text editors *cough* nano *cough* was causing windows to pretty much hang. The laptop we were doing this on was running Windows XP and had a dual core. It used an ENTIRE core for buffering the copy and paste of the thousand of penis (I can’t believe I am writing this…) so we decided to take this experiment to the next level. I opened the process window (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC) and right clicked the notepad process and set priority to realtime (insert awesome face here) and we sat back and watched the ram usage skyrocket.

Normally a notepad file is using between 1mb to 10mb ram usage most and this particular file was running at ooooooh 700MB!!! Thats over 9000!KBS (just had to say that). I don’t know why I found this fascinating, maybe it was the fact that notepad was making a fairly up to date laptop run like your the thought process in G.W.Bush’s brain. This laptop was completely locked up. processing a notepad file. was very funny.

about 30 minutes later it finished me and my lab partner high five’d and the teacher came over to see what we were so happy about (don’t worry my lab partner hid the penis notepad file which ended up being 186mb). and we got out work graded…kinda.

…IMMD…