Besides Ovechkin's goal from his back a couple years, this is the nicest goal I've seen in years.

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I just received word of the last grade I was waiting for for last term's courses.

I took the 3 CS courses that are reputed to have the highest/hardest assignment/project workloads, courses our advisors advise against taking concurrently, and I ended up with 2 A's and an A+. :-)

(The three courses: Graphics, Compiler Construction, Networking)

I really think I deserved one more A+ (in graphics), I don't know why I lost a couple marks on my raytracer, I did everything that was asked for and implemented bonus features, so I'll look into that next week. Even still, I'm pretty happy, an 8.33/9.0 grade point average for the term, beating my previous high of 8.0/9.0 last year.

W00T!

This term (which starts tomorrow, sigh) I'll be taking 4 courses. Right now, those 4 are:

ENGR 240 (Technical Writing for Engineers)

C SC 464 (Concurrency)

SENG 310 (Human Computer Interaction)

SENG 401 (Social and Professional Issues)

My schedule is half blessing, half curse: the good part is I have no morning classes and no school on Friday... the bad part is I have school until 6pm Monday through Thursday.

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28-Dec-2007 03:17 PM Jim Roepcke:
Summary:

When I try to copy a large number of trees of files from a remote network share using the Finder, it takes nearly as much time just to "prepare to copy" as it does to actually copy. If it would just start copying right away instead of counting how many files it needs to copy, it would go much quicker.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Mount a remote volume in the Finder.
2. Select a large number of directories containing many files to copy
3. Copy (Cmd-C)
4. Create a folder on local Desktop.
5. Open new folder.
6. Paste (Cmd-V)
7. Wait while the copy window counts how many files it's going to copy.
8. Wait.
9. Wait.
10. Wait.
11. Do something else.
12. Come back thinking it would be done but it's still counting.
13. Wait.
14. File a bug report about how Finder could just be copying instead of counting.
15. Check on the copy after writing step 15.
16. Still "6 minutes" (read: 20 minutes) to go, keep writing the bug report.

Expected Results:

I expected the copy to begin when I did the Paste (step 6). I know there's a lot of files, I know it's not enough to fill up my disk, and I'd like files to start copying right away. If it must count, can't it do that while it's copying?

Actual Results:

I had to wait way too long to copy files from a network share.

Regression:

Copying a small number of large files wouldn't cause a huge counting delay, just a large number of small files.

Notes:

Perhaps a "stop counting, start copying now" checkbox in the copy window would help.

Thanks!

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