[ale] tech "magic"

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

There's a great wikipedia article on unusual software bugs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_software_bug

I actually ran into a schroedinbug in an apache config file today.

-Johnny

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone here has had it happen. Something fails and you get called to
> "take a look at it". You get there. take it and it isn't working. So
> you methodically take it apart, inspecting everything alonmg the way
> looking for failure points and find
>
>
> nothing
>
>
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> it all looks fine
>
>
>
> So you start testing a few thing as you put it back together.
>
>
>
> all the parts work correctly even though 20 minutes ago they were all
> totally dead
>
>
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> Finally you plug in the reassembled device and it comes up normally
> and works perfectly.
>
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>
> The 3Com switch I noted last Thursday that likely had a dead power
> supply just ran me through that exact process. It works fine now.
> Power supply puts out a rock solid 14V (no load) and 12.01V at 10A
> load. All the fans work just fine.
>
> At least I don't have to explain "what I fixed" in an invoice...
>
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