On Friday August 11 2006 11:44 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > It is *inappropriate* to answer someone who is asking a question > which is somewhat ambiguous with a simple answer of "do this". > > It is *doubly* inappropriate to "correct" an answer in the manner > I saw. If the "corrector" really had serious doubt that the answer > as given was the one the OP needed, then what I wrote above is > doubly important. > > It is the OP who stands to lose. It is the OP who must make the > decision and take the action. It is the responder who should > be careful to give information which is accurate and complete > enough for the OP/questioner to make his decision. > > Otherwise, the responder would have done much better to keep > quiet. By speaking up, one makes oneself open to being > responsible for someone else causing expensive damage to > the state of his disc. > > Mike We've had our clashes here, Mike, but you're spot on in my view. Caveat emptor. I'm reminded of the little incident, was it here?, a few days ago, where the OP had lost his keyboard. He merely needed to reset his BIOS, as it turned out, and as I would have suggested if I'd seen the thread earlier, but he was getting advice to take his machine in to the shop to have his motherboard checked for a keyboard fuse. (I'd just been through a similar experience two days earlier with a Dell laptop - in this case, keyboard worked fine to get into BIOS, or if the machine was fully booted, but in BIOS setup screens, it went dead - unplugging the machine and removing the battery for ten minutes cleared it up) -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
