Patterns of Bugs

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 28/01/2011 12:41, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 28.01.2011 13:33, schrieb Bruno Medeiros:
>> On 08/01/2011 09:14, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>>> On Saturday 08 January 2011 00:16:13 Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>> Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
>>>>>> When I built my latest PC, I saw in the MB manual that it would use
>>>>>>
>>>>>> speech synthesis on the PC speaker to report errors. So I tried to
>>>>>> power on the PC without having plugged either CPU or RAM and it
>>>>>> started to say "NO CPU FOUND! NO CPU FOUND!" in a loop with a
>>>>>> hilarious Asian accent and the kind of rasping voice that used to
>>>>>> characterized old DOS games. Pretty fun ;)
>>>>> That's a heckuva lot better than an undocumented beep pattern which
>>>>> is what
>>>>> I got.
>>>>
>>>> LOL. The beeps for mine are documented in the motherboadr manual, but
>>>> the beeps are so hard to distinguish from one another, that it borders
>>>> on useless. A voice would certainly be better.
>>>
>>> Yes, what is the difference between a "slow beep" and a "fast beep"?
>>>
>>> While I'm ranting, does anyone else have trouble remembering which of O
>>> and | is on, and which is off? What's the matter with "on" and "off"?
>>
>> Hum, I never had problems with that: I always assumed the | meant a closed
>> electrical circuit (ie, you closed the circuit with the switch), thus naturally
>> it meant "on".
>>
>
> O looks like a *closed* circle to me so this isn't that helpful IMHO ;)

In my mental model (where the "|" means a closed circuit, or rather the 
part of the circuit that closes it and makes electricity pass through), 
the "O" doesn't fit well into that model, indeed, it makes no sense.
But just for the purposes of remembering which one is on or off, that 
doesn't matter at all: I just think of "is the | pressed or not?".

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer