Or the corollary.
"We thought we made it foolproof, but then the fools outsmarted us."
...


At 02:44 PM 4/11/2014, you wrote:
>> Replace the user.
 
ROTFL, until I remembered this old, systems design “truism” :  Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot.
 
(Couldn’t find attribution for the phrase, so we’ll let “Anonymous” have it.)
 
 
From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jan johansen
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Bwa hah hah!
Those are the kind of things that should go on the R:Base
Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/RBase
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Fey <[email protected] >
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:25:52 -0500
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Replace the user.

Dick Fey

On 4/11/2014 1:15 PM, jan johansen wrote:
Yeah, I have one of those head scratchers going as well.
I have a process that is throwing errors only for 1 user.
It doesn't matter which machine the process is run on.
Another user can run the process without errors.
Weird.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: "Wills, Steve" <[email protected]>
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:06:47 +0000
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>> ... one of those sneaky things that happen in complicated situations.

Those are the best, ain't they now?

Or the worst ...

 

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