[ale] OT: Haven't seen this in a while, but it always makesme chuckle...

[Geoffrey]

Reminds me of a good story.  Years ago, I was on a team responsible for 
a time reporting system.  As this type of system contains sensitive 
data, we added an idle timeout to all the services.  6 months or so 
later, We've got a customer calling complaining the system is slow.  Low 
story short, one of OUR support folks told one of the supervisors that 
they could alleviate the need to continously log back in by placing a 
stapler or some such device on the space bar of the keyboard.  Well word 
got around and there were apparently many a stapler riding high upon the 
space bar of many a keyboard.  This was in a manufacturing facility, 
100's of supervisors.

Anyway, we ended up adding code that would watch for the same character 
over and over again, and time out if we detected as such...

Jim Lynch wrote:
> That's what you get when you've got a team writing software.  The first
> message was written by the guy looking at hardware.  The second message
> was written by they guy in charge of displaying error messages.  8)
> 
> Jim.
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Just rebooted a headless/keyboardless machine.  Couldn't see it on the
>>network, so I hooked up a monitor and noted the following:
>>
>>Keyboard error or no keyboard present
>>
>>Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter SETUP
>>
>>--
>>Until later: Geoffrey           esoteric at 3times25.net
>>
>>I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
>>to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
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I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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