Re: Has your memory card ever worn out?

It's very much the same thing. Among other things, atomotive scanners
read the error-code log-files in the car.

 

it's not the same thing because technicians who fix computers or cars
have very different needs and training than typical users who edit
photos and drive to the grocery store.

nevertheless, it actually supports my point.

code readers don't give you a list of logged values the sensors
recorded. instead, they tell you what's wrong in english (the better
ones do, the cheap ones make you look up the code).

more importantly, the typical driver sees the check engine light come
on, they take it to a shop and the mechanic takes care of the rest.

 

And the mechanic needs the on-board log files.

Same with computers. The mechanic (or whatever you call them) also
need the on-board log files.

 

This was a long time ago!

I suspect the offending programs may have been one or two of Photo
Paint, Quattro Pro and possibly Visual CAD. I can't remember how Word
Perfect and Paradox behaved. Just about anyone of these programs not
behaving would have been enough to rule out the Radius software.

Or not rotating the screen, which is what I decided to do.

I was disappointed that it didn't work but it wasn't worth the hassle
to me. Not like the time my backup software munched my hard disc.

It's called Windows.

 

no he doesn't.

all he does is look at the code and does what is necessary to solve the
problem. that may involve further testing, depending on what the code
is. most of the time, it tells you exactly what needs fixing.

a technician might need it if he was diagnosing a problem, but normal
users definitely do not.

 

From where do you think he gets the historic error codes? Please don't
tell me there are no such things as historic error codes. My Honda
keeps them until either the memory overflows or is reset.

Who said that normal users need them?

 

that's not a logfile. all the codereader does is tell you what's wrong
with the car in english (or give a code you have to look up if you
didn't get the better model). there is no access to the internals of
the car's computer nor is there raw data of the various sensors.

there *might* be a history of some of the codes, but not necessarily.
my car has no indication that the maf sensor was replaced. it gave a
code, the sensor was replaced, the code was cleared and that's the end
of that.

still, that's very different than log files on a computer.

wolfgang.

most users don't need them at all and even technicians don't need them
most of the time. they run diagnostic software which tells them what's
wrong.

 

Historic error codes means e.g. there have been 8 occasions that the
oxygen level has been too low in the left bank of cylinders etc. They
don't just tell you what's wrong now: they can tell you what's been
wrong in the past.

.... but not necessarily not either.

Nor does my old computer give any indication that drive C: was
replaced. It just stopped logging random read errors.

So you say.

Works well with intermittent faults. :-(

 

That's why Apple have Time Machine and why they sell their Time Capsules is it ?.

What's the backup software that Windows 'pushes'

 

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Well ...

So you don't have vertical and certainly no cross compatability.
Not even when staying with MS programs.

-Wolfgang