Hello,
Everyone on the list has different strengths and, of course, weaknesses.
That is what makes it such a vibrant and dynamic community. A couple of
stories come to mind that I would like to share, if you will indulge me:
o My previous employer was a hardware manufacturer. They made embedded
systems. Telco equipment, to be exact. There were people there that
could design complex boards, analyze weird T-1 signalling, and repair
just about any sort of electronics device. Every so often I would go
down to a far corner of the building to help one of the wizards reset
his screen resolution or move a shortcut out of the Startup directory
so that a program no longer ran every time the developer's PC booted.
o My current employer is a software company and it has a parser for the
ZIP file format (amongst others). ZIP programs use several different
methods for compression and not all of them do so identically. Also,
one has to deal with damaged or malformed (sometimes unintentionally,
sometimes not) ZIP files as well. There's also the new ZIPX standard
to consider, too.
Points being, (1) no one is an expert on every aspect of computers these
days, they are too complex for any one person to have intimate knowledge
of the level when single-digit MHz computers were the norm; and (2) when
things seem simple in a computer, it is typically because the underlying
complexity has been abstracted away from the user-facing bits.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 08:34 AM 6/20/2009, you wrote:
Message: 1
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:46:16 GMT
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] SL500 issue (BSOD)
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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This is at least the second recent time RayBay has posted that he
can't open a zip file from a posted url. I'm running a ThinkPad with
XP SP3 and have WinZip 9. In all cases where RayBay has complained
that he can't access the file, I have had no problems. Double left
clicking brings up the Firefox download dialog, allowing me to
choose to save the file or open it with WinZip. Both work fine. No
problem viewing or downloading the files. Also, RayBay has at least
twice opened with something to the effect of "this is rarely a
software issue, but can be a driver or a hardware issue." Excuse my
ignorance, I'm no computer repair expert like RayBay claims to be,
just a self-taught amateur, but aren't drivers software? I post this
with some trepidation, since a post a long time ago criticizing
RayBay drew considerable vitriol, and I readily admit that some of
his posts provide valuable info, but in my opinion, more provide
questionable, unsupported (as serveral members have pointed
out over time), or just plain wrong info and opinion. I humbly
accept all attacks, er comments, constructive criticism?, defending
RayBay. Just stating an opinion.
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