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- From: dan@BofA.com (Dan Brockman)
- Subject: Re: Computer Superstition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.014354.5441@BofA.com>
- Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
- References: <1992Nov18.132507.22731@bnr.uk> <cN8muB3w165w@mertwig.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 01:43:54 GMT
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- >> In article <10292323.7317.11306@kcbbs.gen.nz>, Murray_Moffatt@kcbbs.gen.nz (M
- >> |> We've all heard of common superstitions such as not walking under ladders
- >> |> and throwing salt over your left shoulder if you spill some, but are
- >> |> there any superstitions to do with computers?
- >> |>
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- My favorite: Use the defaults.
-
- Actually, there are many many superstitions among the users of computers.
- Something goes wrong and what exactly it is gets misdiagnosed although
- the treatment applied does cure the problem. So a system manager insists
- on always having the data server machine in a room different from the
- client machines. A programmer will use malloc(), but insist that calloc()
- is buggy. Etc.
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