Museum of Failure

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I came across this when reading a national UK paper

So worth a visit, what would you add to the failure pages.

We spend so much time and effort trying to be sucessful and creating winning products, but what about celebrating the failure. We do learn as a result, hopefully.

There are interesting items on Minitel which was going to be the french internet if the Americans had not taken over.

But the worry was the medical frontal lobotomie….. you just don’t want to look at that.

My claim to fame, a project I was involved in made the list. Lucky I got out in time just as it was failing NHS information systems.

So want to add your project ?

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They dont have a software page ( except the AI page)., Their ‘Digital failures’ are all hardware. I guess software failures are hard to present?

I could fill this forum with software failures and debugging efforts leading nowhere.
A large part of our posts are about failures.

Can anyone suggest a candidate for the most spectacular failure (Windows excluded)?

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I believe mine would be the UEFI vs Legacy mode of an install and the live USB.
It has bit me in the a** more then once. Today on Christmas, it byte me again.

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One of my recent efforts was spending hundreds of dollars on a hotplug disk cage and SATA card , in the belief that Clonezilla would do my backups faster to a sata disk than to an usb drive. It went slower. Clonezilla is CPU limited because it compresses. Disk speed has nothing to do with Clonezilla times.

I have found lots of other interesting uses for pluggable 2.5in sata drives. … including installing difficult distros like Alpine… but the project was a complete failure because I did not research properly.

It also taught me that the fastest and easiest way to copy something is to copy it…dont muck around with images or compression or isos… just copy ( preferably with rsync, but cp and dd and tar are options)

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Oh yeah - I forgot my own one!

Last Saturday I bought an Intel ARC A310 GPU to plonk in an old i5 Lenovo desktop machine (to offload media transcoding to GPU when I start using JellyFin)… No signal…

Tried it in other similar machines… No signal… No POST…

Things got desperate, and I finally resorted to RTFM (that’s a drastic step for me!)… Turns out it needs a modern motherboard with PCIe x16 4.0 slot and at least a Gen10 Intel CPU…

Doh! Wasted expense… Can’t really take it back for a refund…

So - I’ve now ordered a Dell Optiplex… and the total bill we be more than subscriptions to all the streaming services combined! Oh well - learning is fun… Messing about with O/S is fun…

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You could have a whole section for the different versions 2 through 8