On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:11:49 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/25/2011 06:49 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> I have found the culprit: it was a bad floppy disk! The media was >> physically defective and was causing I/O errors. Once I put a good >> floppy in it, everything worked fine. How embarrassing! Thanks to >> all who replied, and sorry for the noise. > > My wife's old computer (a tower sitting on the floor in a cabinet) > once wouldn't boot, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out > why. So I bought her a new PC. > > A year later, I looked at the old PC at just the correct angle and > saw a disk in the floppy drive... > > *That* was embarrassing!
I have to admit that tops my story. But I think I can do better. I once tore up the wall of my living room trying to find an electrical problem, only to discover that the reason that the electrical outlet wouldn't work was that it was a switched outlet and the switch was off! That was bad enough. But to add insult to injury, I actually have a four-year college degree in electrical engineering! You'd think that an electrical engineer could figure out that the switch was off, wouldn't you? Now *that* was embarrassing! -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/107902408.1413263.1299940246721.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
