Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Is it now? No. Its **was**. Less than a year ago I had dialup, and 
>> having to hunt pages for stuff, some of which could time out on the
> 
> I think we're all aware that using web apps with crappy connectivity is 
> annoying. I'm asking whether you ever had to look up event log ID codes 
> when you didn't have connectivity?  And, had you, would it have actually 
> helped you solve the problem?
> 
> Just curious.
> 
These specific ones, probably not. But, I would have loved to have some 
sort of "sane" explanations for error codes back in Win 98, when 
something blue screened do to a DLL getting hosed, or other glitches, 
which is a similar situation. Reinstalling really isn't a "fix" for that 
stuff, since usually such a reinstall involves either replacing "all" 
files, then having to repatch, hoping the same problem doesn't come up, 
which was a nightmare with dialup, or replacing a single file **if** you 
knew which one, thus possibly introducing an incompatibility, which 
would cause a new BSD.

Yeah. Less of a problem now, but I still wish some times that the error 
codes you get from their software was a bit clearer, or that even if you 
know what the code means, it wasn't so much like modern car mechanics, 
where you know the "general" area of the engine that broke, but its not 
always clear *which* of three parts are involved, or even if its not 
just a sensor glitch, and all of them are OK. lol

Just because I don't have the problem now doesn't mean I a) won't, or b) 
haven't in the past, and that there are no reasons to distrust a 
internet "dependent" solution to these sorts of things.

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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