Honest to a Segfault » Motherboards http://blog.cdleary.com __author__ = 'Chris Leary' Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:41:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A senseless default – press F1 to continue http://blog.cdleary.com/2008/06/a-senseless-default-press-f1-to-continue/ http://blog.cdleary.com/2008/06/a-senseless-default-press-f1-to-continue/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:36:00 +0000 cdleary http://blog.cdleary.com/2008/06/a-senseless-default-press-f1-to-continue/ In lieu of mandatory manual configuration, many devices ship with a default (AKA “stock”) configuration, which may then be altered at the owner’s will. This falls under the best practice category of “sensible default” design, where the creator chooses a sensible set defaults in order to convenience a client.

“Keyboard error or no keyboard present; Press F1 to continue” is an example of the failure to exercise this practice: because of a mysterious CMOS reset, my headless server becomes useless.

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