On Feb 10, 2011, at 1:16 PM, John Martz wrote: >> Conclusion: "cause = -122" is a general, non-specific, error message. >> >> Comments anyone? > > I believe that humans are "wired" to try to find correlations. It's > not just the way our minds may be predisposed to work, I think it is > also how we feel about the way the world should work. When we have an > effect we look for a cause not only intellectually, but emotionally as > well. We have a longing, a desire for an explanation. > > So if we change something and the effect which was vexing us appears > to have gone away then I think most of us are quite eager to view that > change as causal, regardless of whether it was or was not. > > I offer this as a possible rationalization for what you saw when you > dug deeper into this. In my experience, this tendency can make trying > to find a solution very frustrating. Folks seem to always be ready to > claim that just giving their problem a good whack with whatever hammer > they happen to have had at hand is what sorted things. (It sure would > be nice if Google could come up with a search filter to weed out those > posts. ;-)
Quite true. I am convinced that back in the OS 9 many people would attribute many problems to PRAM Zaps and desktop rebuilds. I remember seeing some rather ridiculous assertions. What people tended to forget is that PRAM Zaps and desktop rebuilds included a reboot. I suspect in many cases the reboot was all that was needed. I personally found few things that a PRAM zap definitely fixed, and those that were fixed were most/all things actually related to what was stored in PRAM. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
