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July 2001, Week 3

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Patrick Thrapp <[log in to unmask]>
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Patrick Thrapp <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:46:34 -0600
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I always like the hypothesis of spontaneous generation and de-generation of
code and data to explain away the  quirks.

Patrick Santucci <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> James Hofmeister suggests,
>
> > My first guess would be sun spots, ...
>
> Actually, this is almost always my first suggestion whenever someone
reports
> something "odd" happening on one of our systems. "Your output didn't
print?
> Hmm.. could be sun spots. You've heard how they can flip bits in data
> streams? Your "print bit" probably got switched off. Wanna reprint?" ;-)
>
> Patrick
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Patrick Santucci
> HPe3000 Systems Administrator
> Cornerstone Brands, Inc.
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