Logging On...

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Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:02:20 +0000


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Here's a story of someone who just can't log on to his machine...

Wishes & Dreams...

- ANDREA
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An anecdote from IBM's Yorktown Heights Research Center.

When a programmer used his new computer terminal, all was fine when he
was sitting down, but he couldn't log in to the system when he was
standing up.

That behaviour was 100% repeatable: he could always log in when sitting
and never when standing. 

Most of us just sit back and marvel at such a story; how could that
terminal know whether the poor guy was sitting or standing?  

Good debuggers, though, know that there has to be a reason. Electrical
theories are the easiest to hypothesize: was there a loose wire under
the carpet, or problems with static electricity? But electrical problems
are rarely consistently reproducible.

An alert IBMer finally noticed that the problem was in the terminal's
keyboard: the tops of two keys were switched. When the programmer was
seated he was a touch typist and the problem went unnoticed, but when he
stood he was led astray by hunting and pecking.


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