On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Bruce <bsugarb...@core.com> wrote: > Sometimes the problem went away after things were changed. > Sometimes the problem did not go away after things were changed. > Sometimes the problem went away for a while after things were > changed, then reoccurred again. > > 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. ;-) -irrational john -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
