On 9/28/2012 9:13 PM, cogoman wrote: > On 09/27/2012 09:41 AM, Dave Caroline wrote: >> I would work better if you switch it on! > There is someone at work who has done it to me so often that the first > thing I say to her is "Did you plug it in? Did you turn it on?" > > One day she came to me and said something like "The computer's stuck > in DOS. Fix it!" > > Did you plug it in? Did you turn it on? I asked. > > "Yes I plugged it in and turned it on!" She confidently affirmed. > > I went to check it out. She hadn't read the screen which cryptically > said that there was no video signal. > > Text, not a wallpaper, looked like DOS to her. The old AT style > computer had just been replaced with an ATX style computer at the same > station. I went back and told her I just turned it on (and told her > where to do it herself). She HAD turned on the power strip associated > with that system.
I'm sure we all have funny stories along these lines concerning other users just as I suspect we tend to suppress such stories about ourselves:-) Just last night I added a 2nd SATA drive (so I could run Yocto; see emc-developers) only to have my system fail to recognize it. The drive was all cabled up. It took several moments to realize I'd connected the drive to a SATA power-adapter cable but neglected to connect the other end of the adapter to a spare power connector. Seems I was too busy at the time getting the drive fastened in its slot. Sigh. > > > I used to program GenRad in circuit testers, and the language allowed > you to use any base for a number you wanted. > > b'10110111' o'267' and x'b7' > > all represented the same number. The gotcha for me was that if you left > the base designation out, it took the number to represent a pin on the > device you were testing. > > If I said addr=2 instead of addr=d'2' the software would > dutifully look to see what value was on pin 2, and apply that value to > the address bus (inserting as many preceeding zeros as necessary). > > That one bit me regularly, and all too often. This, on the other hand, is a good example of a truly egregious human-computer interface problem. The GenRad folks should have been made to suffer, preferably in one of Dante's inner circles of hell. Stop me before I start spouting about notable disasters---some fatal---that involved such stupidities. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
