Appropriate responses to error codes

[bunn]

I absolutely love this XKCD cartoon - about what to do if you are frustrated by a computer constantly throwing a mysterious and unhelpful error.  
http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/257968.html

This is up there with a number of Dilberts cartoons in my 'Advice to Live By' list. 

(My life took an enormous turn for the better when I read Dilbert, and realised that, yes, it wasn't that I was incompetent, with bosses with mysterious objectives that I could not understand, but instead, everyone was as confused as I was, and the people in charge had basically mostly got there through a combination of luck and random motion. Some were incompetent, some were malevolent,  and all were making it up as they went along.  This gave me the confidence to start up on my own.  I believe Dilbert should be required reading in schools... )

While I've got my technology tag out, I shall just make a note here that our telephone exchange was upgraded this week, which I *think* means that we may be able to get high speed fibreoptic broadband services in future.   Hurray for EU funding for obscure backward areas?  (I am not thinking today about whether this is really the best application of the funding out of all the possible applications. That is Someone Else's Problem)

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

I've designated it Somebody Else's Problem, so I'm not feeling guilty either. EU funding for things is so complicated, I feel that if I have some spare guilt to allocate, there are many more clear-cut applications to use it for.