On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 22:20 +0200, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> A side note about finding "the" problem. Way back when I was employed by
> software/hardware companies I was often called to ckack the realy
> difficult problems. One technique of locating the source of a problem is
> a kind of binary search: disable part of the program (or hardware), if
> the problem disappears you focus on that part and disable a smaller part
> of it, if it persists you re-enable that part and look elsewhere. I
> found that this technique failed me more often than I expected, because
> the problem at hand (as it manifested itself) had two (I don't recall
> more than two) independent sources. So whatever part you disable, the
> problem would still persists (unless you happened to disable both
> sources - not likely. I don't think this is typical for everyday
> problems, but it happened to me more often than I expected.

Hehe, yes, those types of problems are REALLY frustrating! It's funny
how like minds think alike. One time I was using that technique, and the
problem went away when either half was removed, but was there when both
haves were present! Now that was a tricky one to nail down...

TTYL

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