>>>>>>Haven't heard that method invoked in a bit.
>>>>>>Back then, we called it "The binary chop."
>>>>>
>>>>>Chop is about right :)
>>>>>It is a move of desperation.
>>>>>As they say "Crude, but effective"
>>>>
>>>>Sometimes the only way. Odd, but effective.
>>>
>>>I remember "inventing" this technique a long time ago when I wanted to figure out which bad network card was taking down an entire LAN. Clearly it's been in use for a long time before then but I was never taught about it and I haven't seen it on any kind of curriculum.
>>>
>>>My guess is a lot of people who have done significant troubleshooting of some kind have figured this out on their own, or been mentored by someone familiar with it.
>>
>>While driving the car an odd sound occurs front left. Driver stop, looked around and found one tire flat. Swapped the tire to front right. Drives on. Odd sound now front left - it must be the tire.
>>;)
>
>The cars I've owned have always been "opposite". If a strange sound was coming from the front left, I'd check the rear right and find the problem immediately.

Well the best was as we had a flat tire in the Republic of China, night, car full of all drunken commissioning engineers. I still wonder that we didn't turn the car upside down / inside out. It was common practice at site ...