My OperaWho would you believe?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 12:18:43 PM
The other day I had to configure something on a Windows machine (server 2008). As I did not know that specific setting I looked it up on Google. After a quick filter of the results I ended up with a tutorial on a blog, a msdn article and with the specific settings window opened on the computer.
And here comes the problem, there were 3 sources of information explaining the same thing but specifying the parameters in 3 different ways. Which one of these 3 would you believe?
Well, I had the following reasoning: the blog writer could easily misspell some characters, so it's the least trustworthy source, msdn documentation may be outdated or to refer to a specific build/sp/patch of windows, but what's on the screen should be right. This reasoning turned out to be fundamentally wrong. What was on the screen, right near the parameters field, was wrong. The msdn article was also misspelled, and finally the blogger had it right.
Using and programming for Windows in a pain in the ass.
And here comes the problem, there were 3 sources of information explaining the same thing but specifying the parameters in 3 different ways. Which one of these 3 would you believe?
Well, I had the following reasoning: the blog writer could easily misspell some characters, so it's the least trustworthy source, msdn documentation may be outdated or to refer to a specific build/sp/patch of windows, but what's on the screen should be right. This reasoning turned out to be fundamentally wrong. What was on the screen, right near the parameters field, was wrong. The msdn article was also misspelled, and finally the blogger had it right.
Using and programming for Windows in a pain in the ass.
