The cranky user: What to do when the screen goes blank

Posted by solrac on Sep 2, 2006 2:40 PM EDT
IBM/developerWorks; By Peter Seebach
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Nearly everyone knows that horrible, sinking realization that something's gone wrong. The file you saved isn't there, or at least it isn't where you thought it was. The machine just rebooted and there's a little dialog box saying that the disk isn't recognized, would you like to initialize it? Most of you know what happens next: you do the one thing that guarantees that the data stays lost. You do something hasty, something stupid. In short, you panic.

Nearly everyone knows that horrible, sinking realization that something's gone wrong. The file you saved isn't there, or at least it isn't where you thought it was. The machine just rebooted and there's a little dialog box saying that the disk isn't recognized, would you like to initialize it? Most of you know what happens next: you do the one thing that guarantees that the data stays lost. You do something hasty, something stupid. In short, you panic. Find some fool-proof solutions to the computer-borne panic attack and calm direction of What to do when the screen goes blank. (Hint: You won't find these in the manual.)

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