>> the user needs only to feed the pigs. If that is possible, fine, if not, do what is possible.
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>The part that scares me is they won't be able to find the pigs. <g>

Those would fall into the "can't trust them to keep three painted geese - at least one would get lost" category...

>People think I'm joking when I say that, but I'm not. We have everything from Mom & Pop shops to massive multi-national financial institutions.

...and they are evenly spread across the users' universe.

>One client, after a flurry of network-related problems (that they blamed on our software, of course), finally acquiesced to our suggestion that they needed a network administrator. They looked at their head processing clerk, waved a dead chicken, and said "you're a network administrator!" And they couldn't understand why implementing our suggestion didn't solve their problems. *wild cackle*

I've seen all sorts of network and other hardware problems coming from mice cutting cables (disks, printers), to arc welding close to a coax cable (four NICs nixed into charcoal) or truck yanking the cable, to power cables being extended using fingers as tools and scotch tape as insulator - you could get a nice shock if you touched the BNC connector. Sometimes you'd get regular 220V between hot and zero, then 120 between zero and ground. Funny how it still worked and nobody got electrocuted :).


>And don't get me started on the stupidity committed by large IT departments!