On 10/20/2010 Don Stanley wrote: > Hi Kent, Jon and All; > Thanks for your apology but the Motherboard has apparently worked well for > many; and for me also now. > > Let me share a few of my similar experiences. > For the last 40 years my experience has been: > If there is a program with a Bug, it is in the part I need. > If there is a electronic device with a flaw, it is in the part I need. > > The most revealing example of this was when I bought two Top of The Line > Graphic Work Stations from Silicon Graphics in the mid 1980s. One of them > would not auto boot on Power Up. Silicon Graphics replaced everything in the > chassis including the wiring, with no change. Their solution was to peal the > ID plate off and put it on a new unit. > > > From these experiences one may think, jinks. > However I am convinced the real problem is spirit warfare. > > So, I thank you for your concern, help and prayer. > Don Shoot, Don, had I known you are a veteran of the early "big-iron" workstation wars, I wouldn't have fretted so much. The advantage of a career in R&D was that I got to live on the bleeding edge of technology. I always hoped for the best but tried to plan for the worst. I could tell you stories going back to early DEC PDP8s and the first shipped PDP11s (yes, I'm that old, although Gene Heskett has me beat), and covering almost every minicomputer/workstation maker since. Of SGI, I have bittersweet memories. I knew they were nearing the end when the sales people started spending so much time with me---it meant no one else was buying so my pinch-penny purchases were visible in their quarterly sales reports.
As for your exemplar experiences, you left off my personal favorite: If there is an undiscovered bug in a mature software product I will be the one to discover it because my application is apparently the only one in the universe to exercise that particular logic path. I say "apparently" because the vendor always says this is the first they'd heard of it. The good news to me is that you're up and running. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
