Patterns of Bugs

[Daniel Gibson]

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 ;)