Do you ever have those DUH! moments when you suddenly realise what a muppet you are? I get them all the time which is scary for an alleged genius. I don't think that IT helps with it. After all it's not like it can tell you when you're doing something stupid (unless there are REALLY good error messages for every eventuality) it just does it; well OK, only if you're "really sure?", but let's be honest we see those boxes so often you click through them before your brain has processed why you're being asked, right? I know I've had those panic moments just as the finger begins the ascent from the pressed mouse button.
Given our woeful abilities does technology help? No. After all we know our brains are slower than a CPU - that's why we have 'em - but does software compensate for this? No, it even gives you the option to automatically hover the mouse over the button leaving our brain even less time to catch up with our excellent motor reflexes (which are faster than even computers in calculating 3D positions and motion - ever see a robot try catching a ball?).
Not that my two latest DUH! moments were reflex responses - they were just general stupidity on my part (OK, combined with a little bit of Badly Written Manual - a band name there perhaps?).
The first was the case of the non-thru MIDI in cubase. My symptoms were as described, I had tried everything suggested to no avail, and then I read Martin Walker's excellent series of trouble-shooting docs on the "Sound On Sound" website. Lo and behold one of the things he suggested, that no-one else had considered, was "is there a remote control device setup as this will grab a MIDI input and not forward the stream?" Ah, I had to hang my head and admit that yes, there was and turning it off solved the problem. Thank you Martin (and everyone else that tried to help) and not to the manual that didn't have a decent trouble-shooting section (I'm not even sure that it is mentioned in the remotes section).
The second one was more work related, to be brief it involved some Cisco routers, an ACL and loopback ports. Would the ACL I knew was right work? No. Why not? Because, I eventually realised, that data originating from the loopback was still coming from the router and would not be filtered by any ACL on that router. DUH! Still it all works now :)
Stay happy!
Given our woeful abilities does technology help? No. After all we know our brains are slower than a CPU - that's why we have 'em - but does software compensate for this? No, it even gives you the option to automatically hover the mouse over the button leaving our brain even less time to catch up with our excellent motor reflexes (which are faster than even computers in calculating 3D positions and motion - ever see a robot try catching a ball?).
Not that my two latest DUH! moments were reflex responses - they were just general stupidity on my part (OK, combined with a little bit of Badly Written Manual - a band name there perhaps?).
The first was the case of the non-thru MIDI in cubase. My symptoms were as described, I had tried everything suggested to no avail, and then I read Martin Walker's excellent series of trouble-shooting docs on the "Sound On Sound" website. Lo and behold one of the things he suggested, that no-one else had considered, was "is there a remote control device setup as this will grab a MIDI input and not forward the stream?" Ah, I had to hang my head and admit that yes, there was and turning it off solved the problem. Thank you Martin (and everyone else that tried to help) and not to the manual that didn't have a decent trouble-shooting section (I'm not even sure that it is mentioned in the remotes section).
The second one was more work related, to be brief it involved some Cisco routers, an ACL and loopback ports. Would the ACL I knew was right work? No. Why not? Because, I eventually realised, that data originating from the loopback was still coming from the router and would not be filtered by any ACL on that router. DUH! Still it all works now :)
Stay happy!
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