Comments on: Mixed feelings http://cognitiveflatulence.com/2008/01/07/mixed-feelings/ It stinks when we think Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:59:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: danny http://cognitiveflatulence.com/2008/01/07/mixed-feelings/#comment-10 danny Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:13:57 +0000 http://cognitiveflatulence.com/2008/01/07/mixed-feelings/#comment-10 I like that method as well, it's better to know that there is something wrong with the hardware. What I don't like however, is that the X11 installer based installer simply quit. No error message, no indication that anything was wrong, A nice little pop up box, with an error message that said "Hey, your disk is fucked, and I can't finish. Here is an error message you can google!" would have been wonderful, and would have saved me literally hours of time. In the mean time, I kept fucking around with it, went to install X Pro onto it, for shit and giggles. The disk made this awful screeching sound about 70% of the way through the format, for about a minute, and then the installer died saying there was no disk present. This BIOS won't even detect the disk now, It's getting RMA'd later today. I like that method as well, it’s better to know that there is something wrong with the hardware.

What I don’t like however, is that the X11 installer based installer simply quit. No error message, no indication that anything was wrong,

A nice little pop up box, with an error message that said “Hey, your disk is fucked, and I can’t finish. Here is an error message you can google!” would have been wonderful, and would have saved me literally hours of time.

In the mean time, I kept fucking around with it, went to install X Pro onto it, for shit and giggles. The disk made this awful screeching sound about 70% of the way through the format, for about a minute, and then the installer died saying there was no disk present. This BIOS won’t even detect the disk now, It’s getting RMA’d later today.

]]> By: ooly http://cognitiveflatulence.com/2008/01/07/mixed-feelings/#comment-9 ooly Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:12:41 +0000 http://cognitiveflatulence.com/2008/01/07/mixed-feelings/#comment-9 Personally, I'd rather an installer tell me the disk is dying than have it not inform me of an issue, and mask the problem. Puttng hard work into an install and watching it go arse-over-tit a short time later, to only have you install _again_ with the new disk could be extremely frustrating and time consuming... Geeks like to know what is going on... Joe User doesnt give a shit until his machine becomes a brick, and has to take it into the nearest store asking 'why not my komputer workith?' Bit off topic... i have finally tried out 'twinview' with a couple of older monitors. I don't think i can go back to a single monitor again Dan... I can't believe I have been missing this for all these years... and openbox 3.4.5 fixes up some twinview bugs from 3.4.4! I took a screenshot once for reference and posted it online so the store tech could view my 'bad memory'. I've also in the past printed out log files from a disk with bad sectors and took it back. The printout got looked at as i explained to him how i came to the conclusion the drive was snafooed. The screenshot never did, but he knows me well :) Personally, I’d rather an installer tell me the disk is dying than have it not inform me of an issue, and mask the problem. Puttng hard work into an install and watching it go arse-over-tit a short time later, to only have you install _again_ with the new disk could be extremely frustrating and time consuming…

Geeks like to know what is going on… Joe User doesnt give a shit until his machine becomes a brick, and has to take it into the nearest store asking ‘why not my komputer workith?’

Bit off topic… i have finally tried out ‘twinview’ with a couple of older monitors. I don’t think i can go back to a single monitor again Dan… I can’t believe I have been missing this for all these years… and openbox 3.4.5 fixes up some twinview bugs from 3.4.4!

I took a screenshot once for reference and posted it online so the store tech could view my ‘bad memory’. I’ve also in the past printed out log files from a disk with bad sectors and took it back. The printout got looked at as i explained to him how i came to the conclusion the drive was snafooed. The screenshot never did, but he knows me well :)

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