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Re: Murphy’s Law of Demos

Jake — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:02:18 -0000

That's like going to the doctor or mechanic and your body or car won't do that thing that's been driving you crazy. I usually hit that when I'm trying to document a bug.

Never heard it given a name, what about performance anxiety :)

Re: Murphy’s Law of Demos

Guest — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:48:02 -0000

Must be common to many people in Oracle....what is the law for "not being able to reproduce a bug/error to show someone when you really need to" ?

Re: Murphy’s Law of Demos

Joonas — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:39:00 -0000

I love Windows Update's "Restarting your computer is required" popup - the only choices are "restart now" and "restart later", with the latter scheduling the popup to reappear. Sat through a presentation a while ago (an internal one, luckily) where the guest speaker's slides on the conference room's computer were constantly interrupted by this message.

Re: Murphy’s Law of Demos

Jake — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:59:51 -0000

Yeah, sorry about the performance issues. I think R&A have sorted those by now. That login redirects to RSS issue is a tough one to solve. There's another guy hitting it in AU, but we can't reproduce it. Seems to be account/cache specific.

Since I only run OWC from a VM, I'm always quick to quit and shut it down to quiet my MB's fan, but I have seen that happen a few times. Funny stuff.

Re: Murphy’s Law of Demos

Frank — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:38:06 -0000

Good post Jake. I had a few hairy moments last week, when I did my Connect demo e.g. when I logged in, it took me to an RSS page, and also when I tried to post some media.

I quite like the idea of “while we wait, are there any questions?”. I must use this in future sessions.

P.S. another common thing that happens is that after the demo, the presenter forgets to turn off the webconf, and any stray attendees are able to see where he/she is surfing on the web!!!

Re: Murphy’s Law of Demos

Jake — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:05:49 -0000

Nice, I may try that the next time. On the phone, it's a bit tougher though.

Re: Murphy’s Law of Demos

Jake — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:05:23 -0000

Hahaha, yes those are all good ones too. The projector one is a killer. My odyssey from last year was one of those; good old DVI-VGA connector required, another pitfall of the Mac user.

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Re: Murphy’s Law of Demos

chet — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:50:33 -0000

Bonus points if you actually tap dance. (I'm gonna have to learn)

Re: Murphy’s Law of Demos

Facebook User — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:39:09 -0000

Or the presenter spends 25 mins trying to get the laptop to "recognize" the projector, doing a little Irish jig on the Fn+F8 key. Then there's the audible incoming cell phone call during the critical moment in the PPT. Or the embarassing list of bookmarks on the Firefox toolbar on display....:)