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Subj : Re: How to detect cdrom tray status (open or closed)
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Fri Oct 15 2004 12:40 pm

Eric enlightened us with:
> Welcome to the real world. This is how a lot of things are designed,
> they have absolutely no interest in you the programmer. I run into
> crap like this time and time again.

Awful...

> Wasn't it just recently we learned that LG was using the FLUSH_CACHE
> atapi command to do firmware upload?

Gasp!

> You have my sympathies, i know what its like to want to create a
> usefull utility only to find it cant be done because of the
> designers stupidity.  Someday, maybe, new products will go through
> some kind of "programmers design review" before being released...
> someday, maybe.

Oh, I wish that day comes very soon!

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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