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Sounds like the 500 mile email bug https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
by cortesoft 5y ago
Sounds like the 500 mile email bug
https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
- _carbyau_ 5y agoThe thing I like about this story is that all the facts fit. The user may be explaining something that is crazy to you initially, but the first step is to gather the facts, THEN try to figure it out. So often, the part of troubleshooting is "How can I get more information about X?" In this case, the seemingly unrelated step of telnet into SMTP gathered a few facts together which helped to explain it all.
- azinman2 5y agoI’d love to see a gallery of these kinds of bugs and the actual solutions. This was an awesome story— thanks for linking to it. Also I didn’t know about the units cli program!
- AlotOfReading 5y agoUnits is a wonder. I use it pretty much daily. It's a shame units_cur is so fragile though.
- jraph 5y agohttp://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html