One Message "Check Engine"
I was reading on the great book by Raymond Chen "The Old New Thing" when he point out that people never read error message and as Automobile companies figure it out by condition all the error messages in one single message "Check Engine" he wrote:
Automobile manufacturers have learned to consolidate all their error messages into one message called "Check engine." Most people are conditioned to take the car in to a mechanic when the "Check engine" light goes on, and let the mechanic figure out what is wrong. Is it even possible to have a "Check engine" light for computers? Or would people just ignore that, too? How can a computer even tell whether a particular change in behavior is normal or
unintended?
He also point out this great article at Network World Magazine i thought i should share:
http://napps.networkworld.com/compendium/archive/003362.html