On 10/06/2017 03:05 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/06/2017 02:54 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Yeah. As a hardware engineer that has, over many years, transitioned to >> a software engineer, I always assume my software is buggy. I can't >> believe how often it turns out it's hardware like a bad cable or >> something. My rule of thumb is "If it always happens, it's probably >> software. If it's intermittent, then it's likely hardware. Or not." > > Pournelle's first rule of debugging is, "The first thing you check is > the cables." Ah, yes. Good ol' Jerry from the appropriately named "Chaos Manor". He was an old friend of mine, going back to the ancient and crusty VCC days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Charter Member of the American Society of Curmudgeons - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
