31 Oct
2005
31 Oct
'05
4:52 p.m.
Yes, but I suppose in the field a company's not
aiming for 100%
reliability. If the amount of customers annoyed/inconvenienced by
incorrect boardswaps is less than those annoyed by the time it takes for
That's what makes me different from 99% of other users. I don't care too
much about downtime (although obviously I do want to be up and running
again in a reasonable time), what I do care about (and not just with
computers) is that when the device claims to be operational, it's working
correctly. No odd glitches, etc.
A device you can't trust to give the right results is, to me, worse than
useless. But alas few people seem to care about getting the right result
any more.
Well,
actually, I do refuse to use anything I don't properly understand,
but that is another issue.
apart from your brain ;-)