Ehehe pretty cool, but now let's go out of the Off-Topic and let's switch back in topic. The mistery about the "Advanced" option menu seems that has been clarified, right ? Thus we can close the case. :) -- Anidel. Il 10-10-2007 11:48, "Thomas Leavitt" <thomas at thomasleavitt.org> ha scritto: > I'm a systems admin. I work with these things for a living (why I insist > on screwing around with them on my off time, I'm not sure)... much of > what I do is what I call "voodoo system administration"... I try this, I > try that, I faintly recall that doing this cured a vaguely similar > problem several years ago, or that I heard tell someone fixed something > like that by doing this... I jump up and down in front of the machine > and chant.... and eventually something fixes the problem. Often I'm not > exactly sure what. > > My favorite joke goes something like this... > > An electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, and a computer technician > were in a car that wouldn't start. > > The electrical engineer says, "Let's get out, look under the hood, and > see if the battery's properly connected or there are any loose wires." > > The mechanical engineer says, "Let's get out, look under the hood, and > see anything's broken or come loose." > > The computer engineer says, "Let's all get out of the car, slam the > doors, and get back in again." :) > > Of course, on a Unix system, there's a lot less voodoo than Windows. :) > > Thomas > > > Marius Vollmer wrote: >> "ext Aniello Del Sorbo" <anidel at gmail.com> writes: >> >> >>> Well you know.. They (CS teachers) teach us that computers are >>> deterministic automata. In theory... In practice.. They (the >>> computers) proved us many times they are not. ;-) >>> >> >> No, it's just us humans who get confused and then attribute our own >> irrationality to the machine. :-) -- Anidel
