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             “The database server crashed … it must be high tide.”
                                        
> A week without problems … everybody was happy. Happy, that is, until it
> started again. The same pattern. 10 hours on … 2-3 hours off …
> 
> And then somebody (I seem to remember he said that the person had nothing
> to do with IT (Information Technology)) said:
> 
> “It's high tide!”
> 
> Which was met with blank looks and probably a wavering hand over the
> intercom to Security.
> 
> “It stops working at high tide”
> 
> This, it would seem, is a fairly alien concept to IT support staff, who are
> not likely to be found studying the Tide Alamanac during the coffee breaks.
> 

“It's high tide [1]” 

Like the last problem [2] I mentioned, this one, while sounding entirely off
the wall, does have a logical explanation as well. 

Users. The problems they come up with sometimes … 

[1] http://use.perl.org/~godoy/journal/9361
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/12/09.3

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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