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“The database server crashed … it must be high tide.”
> A week without problems … everybody was happy. Happy, that is, until it
> started again. The same pattern. 10 hours on … 2-3 hours off …
>
> And then somebody (I seem to remember he said that the person had nothing
> to do with IT (Information Technology)) said:
>
> “It's high tide!”
>
> Which was met with blank looks and probably a wavering hand over the
> intercom to Security.
>
> “It stops working at high tide”
>
> This, it would seem, is a fairly alien concept to IT support staff, who are
> not likely to be found studying the Tide Alamanac during the coffee breaks.
>
“It's high tide [1]”
Like the last problem [2] I mentioned, this one, while sounding entirely off
the wall, does have a logical explanation as well.
Users. The problems they come up with sometimes …
[1]
http://use.perl.org/~godoy/journal/9361
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/12/09.3
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