>NB! Means Nota Bene, which is an international expression, something like "Also note this".>

>With realiable network I mean just that! If something in a network is not working 100%, it's unreliable. A bad network card, a bad cable, a bad >hub, router, switch. Or software. Or bad power, which is why an UPS is not a luxury, it's a minimum requirement! Anything related to the network >connection. "No connection is stronger than the weakest link".

>If you for instance unplug a network cable just for a millisecond at the "right" moment, you may get index corruption.

>Also a bad user who turns the PC off without exiting the programs, should be fired and/or billed immediately.

Oh, God... What you enumerate is what I know.

Well. Suppose I tell my client: "You MUST change your 20 years OLD UPS cause Tore told me about" he tells me "Buy it" and then he still has the problem...

I've dealt with all that since I started programming. Just a false contact in a "T" of a XT PC with a coaxial wire hung each workstation with a robust Novell Netware.

Here we go again where we started. I have to check if router/hub is connected to an UPS and first I have to advise my client he has to change it. That machine of the problem has a UPS wich you have to turn on 10 times (really) so that finally it works. You've surely become scared... But it's real.

I say more: A few years ago a coaxial net hung every day just when a mobile phone antenna was installed opposite the street. Get down the antenna no more problems...

And all this started when I asked if any of you know a marvelous function which arrange a table. I had forgotten about it...

Thank you very much.

Héctor