Get_Off_My_WLAN to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 2 days agoSince bits are ones and zeroes, and also mean true/false and on/off by extension, doesn't that mean all solutions to IT problems are just turning something off and on again at some level?message-square85fedilinkarrow-up1522arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1502arrow-down1message-squareSince bits are ones and zeroes, and also mean true/false and on/off by extension, doesn't that mean all solutions to IT problems are just turning something off and on again at some level?Get_Off_My_WLAN to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 2 days agomessage-square85fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@listlesslink8•4 hours agoTom Knight and the Lisp Machine A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. Source: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html Section IIIA
Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
Source: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html Section IIIA