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 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
