Heh. At my last job, we had software that employees had written for
internal use. If I was going to be using the software directly, they'd
give me access to it for testing. If there was some way to crash it,
I'd find it pretty promptly, and not intentionally. :) They wouldn't
let me touch the more delicate systems that were held together with
figurative bailing wire....
Julia "will crash software for food" Thompson
Well, Julia, have you ever heard of the Pauli effect? No, not the Pauli
exclusion principle, the Pauli _effect_. This was the term for Pauli's
legendary ability to destroy any experiment simply by being in the same
room with it. He was, umm, not well cut-out to be an experimental
physicist. The best Pauli effect story actually involves Fermi, who was
running something in his lab and watched it suddenly and spectacularly
self-destruct for no apparent reason. Glass shattering, the works. He's
very confused. A few weeks later Fermi gets a letter from Pauli saying
that he has an explanation. Apparently, _at that exact moment_, Pauli was
on a train passing through the city where Fermi was conducting the
experiment. Hence the Pauli effect :-)
Gautam
