>>NB! Means Nota Bene, which is an international expression, something like "Also note this".>
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>>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".
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>>If you for instance unplug a network cable just for a millisecond at the "right" moment, you may get index corruption.
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>>Also a bad user who turns the PC off without exiting the programs, should be fired and/or billed immediately.
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>Oh, God... What you enumerate is what I know.
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>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...
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>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.
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>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.
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>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...
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>And all this started when I asked if any of you know a marvelous function which arrange a table. I had forgotten about it...
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>Thank you very much.
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> Héctor

Here we go again. You try to fix the result of the problem, I try to fix the problem so it doesn't happen again. Unless you fix the reason for the problems, you will always have the problem. I am a problem fixer, not a problem extender.

By the way, I have had customers whom I have asked to go to he$$.