Patterns of Bugs

[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".

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer